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With spring break just around the corner, students are beginning to get all their travel gear in order. Packing clothes, books and CDs and finding just the right way to cram in those last minute additions consume the final minutes of packing and preparation. Flagging down a taxicab while weighed down with too much luggage is a last-minute ritual, too. But there is one final thing to remember: the tickets. Those airline tickets, which were received three months ago from faraway parents, are now nowhere to be found. As one stresses out in the last few minutes before...
...think if the girl were Mexican, the case wouldn't be like that," said Said Khoury, a Cambridge taxicab driver who lives in West Roxbury...
...Taxicab drivers in Harvard Square, however, say their business has suffered as significantly fewer passengers request airport service. Cabbies say Harvard students have virtually abandoned cabs, which can cost up to $25 a ride, in favor of the new shuttle...
...Taxicab drivers are especially disgruntled because the shuttle service is not required to pay the $8,500 licensing fee for passenger pickup...
Fishers 13.1 Loggers 13.0 Airplane pilots 12.6 Structural-metal workers 9.8 Taxicab drivers 4.7 Construction workers 3.3 Farmworkers 3.1 Roofers 2.9 Truck drivers 2.7 Fire fighters 2.2 Police 1.4 National average...