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...resurrect the American infrastructure, the government might help finance federal, state and local partnerships to build mass transit, opting for light rail more often than underground subway lines. These transit systems would easily pay back their start-up costs through reduced consumption of fossil fuels, diminished pollution and traffic congestion. The construction could be financed, at least in part, by new taxes on parking and gasoline. Similarly, high-speed railcars could be a new, more efficient means of transportation and could be paid for by imposing new taxes on diesel and jet fuel. Those levies would not be popular...
...first time since the Beat Generation of the '50s and early '60s. During the past five years, a new generation of defiantly populist poets has moved verse out of the hothouse environment of college and university writing programs and into bars, coffeehouses and even Laundromats and subway trains. "The only way ; for poetry to survive is to get out and get poetry into people's lives," declares Bob Holman, who organizes readings at the hip Nuyorican Poets Cafe on New York City's Lower East Side...
...only to be reborn in grotesque form. The bleak life of a homeless woman is snuffed out through blind chance in "Zombies on Broadway," by Kaz, whose characters recall the hollow face and tortured body of the man in Edvard Munch's "The Scream." And woodcut figures ride the subway to self-immolation in the Village Voice's Mark Beyer's "The Unpleasant Subway...
...students want a Burger King, they can take the five-minute subway ride to Central Square, says Gladys P. Gifford, one of the founders of the Harvard Square Defense Fund. "Let's have one place on the planet that doesn't have the same thing," says Gifford. National fast food chains would drive out traditional Square mainstays such as Elsie's Famous Sandwiches, Mr. and Mrs. Bartley Burger Cottage, Pinocchio's Pizza and Subs and the Tasty Sandwich Shop, she says...
...Harvard event, a group of students marched to the subway station en masse, chanting, "Not the court. Not the state. Women must decide our fate...