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Venturing into a quasi-war zone such as Cambodia is a traveler's gamble. A group of Mexican tourists recently spotted in the lobby of Phnom Penh's sole luxury hotel were snapping pictures of a wooden model of Angkor Wat, the country's famous 9th century temple complex -- as...
The railroads have computerized terminals and yards so that every engine and car is shown on a screen somewhere. Union Pacific dispatcher John Cazahous in Omaha, Nebraska, once spotted 14 runaway freight cars from another line 1,500 miles away in Los Angeles. Within 11 minutes he had alerted California...
The spotted owl was never really the issue, despite bumper stickers that squawked I LIKE SPOTTED OWLS -- FRIED and SAVE AN OWL, EDUCATE A LOGGER. But, as David Seideman points out in this thoughtful portrait of an Oregon logging town struggling with the severe decline of its only industry, the...
Hundreds of Cambridge seniors were scheduled to have an outdoor cookout in Harvard Yard last Thursday with President Neil L. Rudenstine and Mayor KENNETH E. REEVES "72 as speakers. It was to be called the "Wild east Picnic." But the rains came in the morning the picnic moved indoors and...
At 3:15 a.m. on June 28, New York State troopers spotted a pickup truck without a license plate cruising Long Island's Southern State Parkway. The officers tried to pull the vehicle over, but the driver refused to stop. The ensuing chase ended 15 minutes later when Rifkin, 34...