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...Joanna Naples-Mitchell '10, a Crimson editorial editor, is a Social Studies concentrator in Kirkland House. She was going to write her summer postcard about the man who tried to sell her a pirated DVD on the subway, but then she watched Ashcroft testify a few weeks ago and changed her mind...
...after a 4-hour flight from New York to San Francisco, a layover, a 13-hour flight, and a subway ride, I arrive in Hong Kong. I've never been here before, I have no family here, and I'm traveling alone. I have one week to eat and sightsee my brains...
...leading the SMERSH men through the circular upper concourse of the Byelorussian-Radial subway station on the Moscow circle line, with its white-ceilinged dome and brilliant electric lights, and opposite us two parallel escalators, thickly packed with Muscovites, rising from below. It seemed as though they were all looking at me! They kept coming in an endless ribbon from down there, from the depths of ignorance--on and on beneath the gleaming dome, reaching toward me for at least one word of truth--so why did I keep silent...
...with that sense of purpose that Beijing has spent the past seven years transforming itself. The city added roughly 85 miles (about 140 km) of subway and rail lines and a huge airport terminal. Forty million pots of flowers and 22 million trees were planted. As many as 1.5 million people were forcibly relocated. Some, like the Yu family, who ran a snack shop north of the Forbidden City, hung on till the very end, wrapping their structure in flags and photos of Chinese leaders in hopes it might stop the wrecking ball. It didn't. Less than 48 hours...
...suicide, but few more public than turning a multiton moving train full of passengers into a bullet. Last year in the U.K., 194 people killed themselves on the tracks of mass-transit systems, with some 50 of those choosing the sooty tunnels of the Tube. New York City's subway averages 26 suicides a year. In Paris, 24 died on the tracks of the Métro last year. While it is a fallacy to imagine any suicide as a solitary act - even the tidiest affair leaves survivors stricken - death by train is a particularly declaratory form of killing oneself...