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...Massachusetts Turnpike Authority Chair Matthew J. Amorello, the sun might soon rise over a new kind of median, a median defined not by Jersey barriers or Jersey-esque patches of exhaust-wilted grass, but by a sleek, superfast monorail propelled from Springfield to Boston by powerful electromagnets. Commuters would still commute on either side in the familiar car lanes, but they would be the main event no longer—the median’s proud iron steed would have stolen their thunder. A high-tech, vaguely Blade Runner-flavored cream center would have at last filled the transportational Twinkie...
DIED. PAUL SIMON, 75, deeply earnest former Democratic Senator from Illinois and one-time presidential candidate; of complications from heart surgery; in Springfield, Ill. With a uniform of horn-rimmed glasses and bow tie, and no college degree, he was an unlikely politician. But after making a name for himself as the corruption-busting editor-publisher of a weekly newspaper, he was elected to the Illinois state legislature in 1954 and went on to serve five terms in the House of Representatives and two in the U.S. Senate. He made an ill-fated run for the presidency in 1988, dropping...
...DIED. PAUL SIMON, 75, liberal Democratic congressman and two-term senator from Illinois who ran unsuccessfully for President in 1988; in Springfield, Illinois. Simon, who wore a trademark bow tie and large glasses, argued for shifting spending from the military to social programs, but favored balanced budgets. The son of American missionaries to China, he was a key congressional backer of Taiwan...
...home he faced rising costs for his diabetic son's insulin. At work he was forced to lay off teachers, policemen and fire fighters in part because of skyrocketing drug prices. So Michael Albano, the colorful mayor of Springfield, Mass., looked north for a solution. Starting in July, Springfield became the first city in the nation to officially encourage its employees to buy prescription drugs from Canada. City workers fax or mail their prescriptions to a company in Canada; the prescriptions are filled there, and the drugs are mailed to the patients' homes. The workers get a reduced copay...
...with cities across the country watching Springfield's experiment, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may be moving to crack down. While federal law prohibits the reimport of U.S. drugs by anyone other than the manufacturer, the FDA has long tolerated individuals who bring prescription drugs from Canada for personal use. But last week the FDA persuaded a federal judge to shut down Rx Depot and Rx of Canada, which sell Canadian drugs in the U.S. Along with its Canadian counterpart, it has stepped up its investigation of CanaRx, the Canadian company that administers Springfield's program, for potential violations...