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Tufts University students may feel a little less isolated from Boston thanks to a plan to extend the city’s subway system closer to the Medford school’s campus, but officials refuse to say exactly where a new T stop is planned. The Massachusetts Bay Transit Authoriy’s (MBTA) Green Line Extension Project will add train service to the Somerville and Medford communities by 2014. “The final location of the stop will be decided through the data from the planning process and discussions and consultations with citizens from Medford...
...city quickly regained its equilibrium. Streets reopened and subway service was restored. "New York City is back and open for business," Bloomberg said. Even tourists at the scene - holding cameras aloft and chattering on cell phones - seemed largely unruffled by the incident. "I do feel quite safe still," says Sandra Bell, a tourist on vacation from Glasgow, Scotland. Still, she says, standing just yards from the spot where she's often watched the iconic ball descend to herald each New Year, "it's amazing to think something would happen here." As uniformed military personnel ducked...
...growth wood consumed by hundreds of redundant posters. Chalk—mere calcium carbonate and pigment—eventually washes away into the wastewater system harmless to the environment, whereas posters liberated by the wind clog drains and choke urban wastewater systems. In New York City, a subway safety study even found that stray posters and newspapers were a leading cause of track flooding...
...central Caracas subway station, metal barriers, manned by national guardsmen, cordon off a long hallway. The site is reminiscent of a military checkpoint, but the eager consumers seeking entrance are there for a less sinister reason. They're stocking up on basic food supplies such as rice, black beans, and what has, in recent months, become the Holy Grail of edibles: powdered milk...
...apparently yearns for its glory days. Its eccentric brand of nostalgia is manifest: until the McCain story hit the Web, sitting atop the website’s “Most Emailed” list was a story about “celebrating the semicolon” on a subway poster. The piece, beginning with this most banal of leads, develops into a disconcerting death knell for the richer punctuation of yesteryear: prominent lefties like Noam Chomsky wax elegiac and crack wise about grammar, the implicit assumption being that people under seventy see the semi-colon and think...