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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first part was a cinch: take the M60 from Ground Transportation to Manhattan. A short ride later, and there I was, on 125th Street and Lexington. Getting to 3rd Ave. and 45th Street from East Harlem? Piece of cake. Just transfer to a downtown bus, and look, there one is coming down Lexington now. OK, so the people on the bus gave me funny looks as I tucked my laptop between my feet and opened my complimentary Shuttle edition of the latest American Prospect: A Journal of the Liberal Imagination, but whatever; this is my public transportation...
...employer gives me their limo service account number to call for the return ride. "That's how we do things around here." The weather is still sweltering. Giuliani has kindly instructed people to stay indoors between the hours of 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. Yeah, right. This is the city that never sleeps. The air quality is atrocious, though, possibly even dangerous. The limo is scentless and air-conditioned, a welcome relief. The driver is polite and well-groomed, and as we glide over the Queensboro Bridge, I look south. The city is blanketed by a dirty, muggy haze. From...
Postgame, Boise: All the little-league players who get in for free line up to run bases after the game. After three minutes of traffic congestion and a 10-minute ride, I'm home...
Just a few communities south of Flint, in the rural lakefront enclave of Highland Township, train jumping has been elevated to the status of an art form. For generations, on any given weekend during summer, as many as three dozen kids might jump a train, eventually reminiscing the joy rides into tall tales. To be sure, getting onboard isn't that tough. The trains routinely stop at the Hop-In Grocery for a coffee break. But when the train gets going, it really gets going. The wheels clank heavily against the tracks and the cars rattle and shake fiercely...
...allowing a competitor into the area? Exactly. Although would-be warriors such as AT&T, MCI ($18.5 billion) and Sprint ($14.1 billion) are huge, well-capitalized companies, they can't duplicate the $100 billion infrastructure of switches, wires and poles that serves local neighborhoods. Deregulation allows them to ride the incumbent's system, but here's where the static begins: they must rely on the tender mercies of the Bells and GTE to put them into customers' homes. That gives AT&T's enemies every incentive to drag their feet, first by challenging the terms of agreements to carry...