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...service tunnel in which last week's breakthrough occurred lies between two larger railroad tunnels, not as close to completion, through which Chunnel traffic will be carried. By the year 2003, an average of 54,500 passengers on the vehicle shuttles and 67,670 passengers on the railway trains are forecast to transit the tunnel daily. The vehicles will be carried on shuttle trains initially running at least every 15 minutes at peak periods and making the crossing in 35 minutes. Alternating will be passenger trains, while freight will trundle through in off-peak hours. For motorists, travel time between...
Last is best. Ernest Hemingway's Hills Like White Elephants (directed by Tony Richardson) is a vignette from 1925 Spain. At a dusty rural railway station, a writer with wanderlust (James Woods) and his pregnant girlfriend (Melanie Griffith) warily discuss what is never explicitly mentioned: an abortion. Writers John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion produced dialogue that is Earnestly true, not faux Papa. Woods, edgy as usual, and Griffith, her little- girl voice on the edge of tears, generate real sexual tension...
...with $70 billion in debts and tremendous reconstruction costs. While Saddam does not face an immediate cash shortage, he is intent on proceeding with some $40 billion worth of self-memorializing development projects that he has been unable to finance. Among them: the Baghdad metro, 2,000 miles of railway and two gigantic hydroelectric dams. Now Saddam can not only pocket the profits of Kuwait's oil wells but also manipulate their production levels to ensure a high price...
...whether the accommodations are cramped or commodious, on every railway a different America floats past the window. The paths of trains are like those roads that author William Least Heat Moon called "blue highways," the forgotten byways that lead into the heart -- and the soul -- of the country. Such a trip unreels a documentary about smokestack America that pans across abandoned factories, stockyards, waste dumps and prisons. It is also a voyeuristic voyage more real than Roseanne, crazier than A Current Affair. For the train catches the nation in its undershirt, unguarded in its backyard after work, quarreling amid rusting...
...cruelly heavy suitcases filled with human remains is the climax of The Innocent, told with all McEwan's frigid skill. The last part of the book is a hilarious account of the young man's attempts to rid himself of his obnoxious burden. The cases won't fit in railway lockers. A dog smells their contents and tries frantically to avenge the canine species for centuries of subjugation. Finally exhausted, Leonard draws the vultures of both security and treachery to the tunnel...