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Students and residents will no longer be forced to choose between a $25 wild cab ride down the Charles and an 85-cent, hour-long trek on a rainbow of subway lines with suitcases in tow. Finally, the city has cleared the way for the logical, environment-friendly alternative: mass surface transportation to the airport...
Goleman closed with a moving anecdote about how an old man on a subway prevented an aggressive bully from harassing fellow passengers by engaging him in friendly conversation...
...happenstance, we also recently spotted a man doubled over a Pilot on the New York City subway. He turned out to be Andrew Manitsky, a TIME reader, who was scrolling through page after page of sports scores downloaded from the Net. Manitsky, a lawyer who dumped his Sharp Wizard in favor of a Pilot, uses his new palmtop to keep track of schedules, phone numbers and the occasional great notion, as well as a link to E-mail and the Internet. But it's not all work: Manitsky also loads up the palmtop with gaming programs like Tetris and Space...
...passing motorist, and pronounced DOA at a hospital early today. His 60 year career focused on "asymmetric information," when the parties in a transaction have access to different information. Interested in practical applications, like the efficient use of public transport, Vickrey was able to convince the Washington D.C. subway system (but not New York's) to use a progressive fare system, which charges more for longer trips. He also left his mark on the auction houses of the world, where a sealed bid "Vickrey auction" has the highest bidder only paying the next-highest offer. Vickrey earned a master...
Previously, students had the choice of paying $20 for a cab or spending as much as an hour on three different subway lines...