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Nevertheless, our subway is in trouble—the perennially underfinanced T is not nearly as secure as it should be from terrorist attack...
...Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) subway system is perhaps the most underappreciated public resource in the Boston area. Although many grumble over its inconveniences, few could do without it, and many quite literally need it to survive. We may lament its early closing time or uneven schedule, but without the ‘T,’ vast swaths of the public, not just we tight-budgeted students, would be hamstrung...
History, as well as common sense, shows that mass transportation systems are a particularly attractive target for terrorists—the 1995 Aum Shinrikyo Tokyo subway attack, the 2004 Madrid train bombings, and the 2005 London subway bombings are proof enough. But while the federal government has undertaken a massive and fairly successful campaign to beef up airline security, measures to secure local mass transportation systems have lagged far behind, whether as a result of wrangling over the disbursement of lucrative homeland security grants at the state level, lack of initiative at the local level, or plain old bureaucratic foot...
DENIED. Final appeal by Shoko Asahara, 51, messianic leader of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, of a 2004 death sentence for masterminding the 1995 sarin-gas attack on Tokyo's subway that killed 12 people and injured 5,000; by Japan's Supreme Court; in Tokyo. His appeals exhausted, Asahara faces death by hanging, although no date has been set for his execution...
...gypsy tears" to prevent AIDS) and prejudices (against Jews, whom he has apparently never encountered). Checking into a Manhattan hotel, he is accompanied by the manager into the elevator, where he starts to unpack his suitcase, then demands "a smaller room." He runs through a crowded subway car vivaciously hugging wary strangers, and interviews feminists who seem annoyed by his insistence that women's brains are smaller than men's. Of his nude-wrestling encounter with his producer, we will not speak - only gape, in retrospective awe and horror...