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...case in point: I take the subway to and from work, and shortly before I get home, my train emerges from underground, back into the world of sunlight and cell-phone reception. As it does, everybody on the train performs the same gesture in unison. We dip into our bags, briefcases, purses and pockets for whatever mobile digital device we carry. This is the behavior not of enlightened digital consumers but of addicts caught in an epidemic...
...bursting every morning and evening, the country runs on rails. In 2005, Japanese traveled 243 billion miles by railroad - nearly 1,900 miles per person. And 49 billion of those miles were covered by the shinkansen, the super-fast bullet trains that make intercity travel as simple as a subway hop. If all you've ever known is the slow torture of Amtrak, you won't believe trains that reach 170 mph, depart for major cities at least six times an hour, and measure punctuality in tenths of seconds. Still, the Japanese want to go faster...
...worst grocery stores in the country, hands down. In the rest of America, they build supermarkets the size of convention centers, and fill them with every kind of soup Campbell's ever made and all of Heinz's 57 varieties. In the city, ours are the size of subway cars, filled with the same kind of really angry people trying to squeeze their carts past one another so they can buy 28 oz. of peanut butter for $6. Selection? Ha. We get chicken noodle and tomato soup, and two sizes of ketchup. Certainly there are the fancy food shops where...
...Mart has kicked the UFCW's ass all over the country - there's not a single union Wal-Mart store anywhere. Whatsa matter, Stu, you don't got game for those hicks from Arkansas? This is a union town. New York's cops, firefighters, sanitation workers, teachers, bus and subway employees are all organized. So are its actors, hotels, restaurants and construction workers. As well as the media, including the lefty Times and the righty Post, not to mention TIME, and all the television networks (including the anchors). The major exception is the Dean and Deluca liberals...
...Gore really wants to save the planet, he can try this: Turn off the lights. Ditch the heated pool. Ride the subway. And spare us the carbon-trading piety...