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...MBTA's commuter rail--the "Purple Line"--operates out of two termini: North Station (on the Green and Orange Lines of the MBTA subway), and South Station (on the Red Line). From these stations, 11 lines radiate into Boston's suburbs, and throughout most of eastern Massachusetts...
Amtrak also departs from South Station, as do Greyhound, Bonanza and several other bus lines...
Many of the most dire Y2K scenarios are predicated on the assumption that the glitch will KO the country's electric utilities, turning out not only your lights but everything from the pumps at the gas station to the Slurpee machine at the 7-Eleven. It's a plausible theory. The conventional and nuclear power plants that produce our electricity are all controlled to some degree--usually a large degree--by computers, and some of the suspect programs are etched directly onto silicon chips, making them even harder to find and fix. Some utilities have only recently begun the process...
...time for Discovery to head home, and every nook and cranny of the shuttle is stuffed with souvenirs of its last hook-up with Mir. Astronaut Andrew Thomas -- who spent 130 days on the Russian station and brought back a bundle of posters, certificates and even a guitar -- seems to have the perennial tourist's problem of packing in zero gravity: "We've got stuff floating everywhere," he said after rejoining his colleagues Thursday...
...received GPS data -- and that's something of a relief after a $33 million antimatter experiment was ruined Tuesday by communication breakdowns. Coming after the antenna malfunction that prevented TV broadcasts of their Mir hookup, the astronauts must have wondered whether their record of woes would outpace the Russian station's. Now the only thing they need worry about is storage space...