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...nonstop people mover remains a mystery. Built in 1912, the subway was completely refurbished in 1958; the current plan is to create a "loop" of cars that run * slowly but continuously so people can step on and off. But the old system is in no evident need of repair. Perhaps that is why no Senator will admit sponsoring this expenditure, which was added to the appropriation bill of the Senate Appropriations Committee's legislative-branch subcommittee at a session during which no recorded vote of the members was taken...
...read a poster on the wall of the Bicycle Repair Collective, as it was called 19 years back in its hippy haven days: people then went to the Cambridge bike shop to learn from socialist/feminists how to fix their own bikes, or to have them repaired at reasonable cost...
...Broadway is still a teaching facility. While the less mechanically-motivated can pay to have their bikes taken care of, bikers who dare can either come in and rent space and time to fix their vehicles, or they can learn how to repair their bikes themselves...
Sadly, the amendment died twice in the Foreign Relations Committee in the last three years. No one has been bold enough to reintroduce the measure this year, and there have been no new proposals to repair the flaws of the War Powers Resolution. In the wake of Bush's triumph in the Gulf, congressional demand for a greater check on the president may be politically infeasible...
...Bush's postponement of a spring visit to Tokyo while the President and Secretary of State James Baker undertook a round of meetings with leaders from nations that contributed militarily to the victorious coalition. Worried about U.S. ill-feeling, Tokyo hurriedly arranged this week's Kaifu-Bush meeting to repair the damage...