Word: subways
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...lethal when diluted in water. Lagana noted, however, that potassium ferrocyanide can easily be ignited by ordinary gunpowder. "If you burn it in a closed environment," he says, "you can have a very serious situation." The arrested men might have had an attack of this sort - in a subway, perhaps - in mind...
...interesting questions about individuals’ and society’s perceptions of various occupations, but he falls prey to his own criticism. Hartnett invokes John Dewey, arguing that a person’s job is not the full measure of her individuality. Yet, in his assessment of a Subway sandwich maker, Hartnett “can’t get past the sandwich,” arguing that the worker’s individuality is snuffed out by her job. Hartnett cannot conceive of any way that she could find meaning in her life or make an impact...
Taxi, UC shuttle or T to Logan? T, because when I’m in the process of leaving for a a trip, I’m so excited about getting there that I don’t mind lugging my suitcase through the Square, across three subway lines and onto an airport shuttle...
Unfortunately, there are fewer rides at Harvard than at Disney. The subway, though, comes close. The first time I rode the T, in fact, the Disney-fied part of my brain was expecting a simulator. The spooky Widener of yesteryear could be our Haunted Mansion (hey, they’ve already added a turnstile) and the Quincy House elevators make a convincing Tower of Terror. Tomorrowland is represented by the Science Center and the distant and alluring Quad is Frontierland. The fake brick and simulated history of Liberty Square makes way for the real and dangerously uneven brick sidewalks...
...weaken the yen, make Japan's exports a little more affordable, buy a little time. Most people consider that a bankrupt solution for a nearly bankrupt nation. A weak yen certainly won't help the wide-eyed man with a two-day growth of beard wandering the tunnels connecting subway stations in central Tokyo. "HELP ME," reads a sign around his neck. "RESTRUCTURED." There were nearly 20,000 bankruptcies last year - the second-highest yearly total since World War II. "It's simple," says Andy Xie, Morgan Stanley's chief economist for the Asia Pacific region. "Japan has not evolved...