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...different kind of tea party from the one held 200 years ago in Boston Harbor, but hundreds gathered at subway stations from Ashmont to Alewife yesterday to celebrate 80 years of Red Line T service from Boston to Cambridge...
...brick square of sorts bordered by the glass windows of the Cambridge Trust Bank, Mass. Ave. and the T station. Most tourists and students on their way to the subway or to stores and cafes around Harvard Square avoid lingering in this smoky hangout of would-be adolescent punks sporting black leather, spikes and the latest in hair design and coloring. The pit is a hangout, and it's nothing like the IHOP or the yogurt store you liked to dawdle in after school. This is a real urban joint, the territory of ruthless teen-age druggies and anarchists...
...invested mightily in these systems. Originally such devices were not tripped until the ground began to shudder -- scant notice indeed, though enough to prevent the derailment of a speeding bullet train. Such simple motion-detecting systems are now used throughout Japan and in parts of California to halt subway trains and nudge elevators to the nearest floor when ground motion exceeds a certain threshold. The Alaska pipeline is similarly equipped for instant shutdown...
...golf or squash but rock climbing. The new Star Trek is his favorite program. He has taken on cleaning up Times Square and working at homeless shelters rather than organizing charity balls. If the restaurant choice is up to him, it is usually inexpensive and convenient to a subway stop...
...Sulzberger returns by subway from jury duty, talking about it as a great adventure rather than an onerous task, he bounds into the company cafeteria for a late-afternoon yogurt and a chance to wave to a few troops. If there is a hand among the 300 in the newsroom he hasn't shaken, it is not for lack of trying. "I'm a journalist who gets off at the wrong floor now," he is fond of saying...