Word: subways
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...film party at the Majestic Hotel. Jackie Chan, Samo Hung, Jet Li, they were all there, and everyone was invited. Except Your Intrepid Reporter - even after begging. So YIR and his comely escort stood in the hotel driveway, watching thousands of lucky people pressed against one another in a subway-rush-hour crush. The only people allowed to join the party were Hong Kong celebrities arriving in limos and whisked into another entrance. Then YIR's escort spotted a familiar face, that of director Peter Chan, inside one of the Mercedeses. "Hop in," Chan said. We rode about four meters...
...minutes before the first meeting of the morning, and I am rushing out of the subway, wondering whether I'm going to be able to get a cup of joe at Starbucks. It's a fifty-fifty chance on any day, because if there are more than two people in line, there's no way. For sure, one of them is going to order a low-fat mochacappafrappadecafochino extra foam, the clerk will be steaming someone else's soy milk, and that will be that. Yeah, yeah--the last thing New Yorkers need is a stimulant. But it's amazing...
...MBTA pilot program—which has been planned for four years—will start with buses rather than the subway for cost reasons...
...Most of our buses are much more energy-efficient [than subway cars],” Havern said...
...imagine that someone had built a theme park, just for you. It had a college campus right on it, and a charming street area that makes you think of a small town, or at least a small town with a subway and a million small-town folks in it. The theme park also has friendly homeless people who sell newspapers on the street, and an outdoor cafe in the center whose name you can pronounce, because you took a semester of French your freshman year. Of course, the essence of every theme park is to give you just enough...