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...year long, we’ve used our depth to our advantage to give us speed from top to bottom,” Schreck said...
...beat Radcliffe for the Case Cup by 5.9 seconds on the April 25 Charles River Challenge.The Black and White showed early season promise by beating Dartmouth and Syracuse on April 18 to win the O’Leary Cup.Both the Varsity Eight and the Second Varsity Eight showed good speed in the second half of the race course to comfortably edge the Big Green and the Orange.But the Charles River Challenge saw the Black and White lose to three ranked opponents—the aforementioned Yale, USC, and Virginia—before bouncing back with wins against Gonzaga and Tennessee...
...further complicate matters, new companies are looking to muscle their way onto the tracks. Italian start-up Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori (NTV) is set to launch Europe's first privately operated high-speed service in Italy in 2011, in competition with Italy's former rail monopoly Trenitalia. Headed by Fiat and Ferrari CEO Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, NTV plans to establish a broad network of high-speed Italian services that dovetail with French routes run by SNCF, which owns...
...winners are bound to be passengers. Further deregulation is in store: in 2012, national markets, not just international routes, are slated to be opened to more competition. "Travel as we've known it recently is being turned on its head, with larger numbers of people using high-speed rail to avoid the hassles, delays and stress of taking an airplane," says Mark Smith, a U.K.-based industry expert and founder of rail-travel website seat61.com. "On routes of three hours or less, you get to your destination faster and more comfortably than by air. And which is more glamorous these...
...years since the Italian futurists declared in a manifesto their intention to find a new way of representing "our whirling life of steel, of pride, of fever and of speed." They loved modernity and machinery, and the movement's founder, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, even welcomed war as "the world's only hygiene...