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Beantown revelers—as well as late-night workers like Francis—must now either walk, take a taxi, or drive their own cars home, as they had to from 1960—when the T first eliminated 24-hour service—until...

Author: By Brendan R. Linn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Night Owl Bus Gives Its Final Hoot | 7/8/2005 | See Source »

...ghettos outside the city limits. Only the “Nicas” have this one advantage: they are feared, and their poverty, their presence, is a constant, weighty shadow that creeps along the edges of cosmopolitan San Jose. They will not be forgotten as long as even taxi drivers, that typically fearless breed of city dweller, refuse to set foot in their ramshackle villages in broad daylight. Their festering humanity, heartrending as it is to the eye, has its virtue in visibility...

Author: By Grace Tiao, | Title: A Bus Stop Bear Hug | 6/27/2005 | See Source »

...Siam General Aviation (sga.aero) in conjunction with several Hua Hin hotels, but you don't have to be a guest at a participating property to use it. At around $135, a return ticket is also surprisingly reasonable-costing about the same as a two-way fare in a chartered taxi, but infinitely better than staring at endless miles of traffic jams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Traveler | 6/24/2005 | See Source »

...windy now, and Wanda is further infuriated when she learns that their limousine cannot pick them up at curbside. "This lane is for taxis only," explains the shaken USIA woman. That does it. "I will go back to New York," Mrs. Horowitz announces. Her husband quickly seconds the motion: "If she's not going, then I'm not going." A compromise is reached: Wanda will take a taxi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Meeting with the Stunks | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

Their American counterparts were less hospitable. The White House press center (a taxi ride away from the center of town in a city with no taxis) was open only to accredited White House correspondents, much to the annoyance of European journalists. At the outset, harried U.S. officials seemed peeved that they had to deal with the press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Spin Control | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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