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...sometimes stopping at bus stops, but others profited by charging illegally high amounts for short distances. Francine N. Schweitzer, a commuter from Westchester who was able to take a cab for metered fare from Grand Central Station on the first day of the strike, said her daughter had a taxi driver who tried to charge her $25 to get from the West Side to the East Side. Several taxi drivers refused to comment on fares during the strike. Small retail businesses, which make some of their biggest profits during the holiday season, are faced significant losses due to the strike...
...extra mile for that or, rather, a few thousand miles," says Hassan, who left the U.S. Dec. 11, notifying his family in an e-mail from the road. The teen bought a $900 plane ticket to Kuwait with money his parents had given him earlier. He took a taxi to the Iraq border but couldn't enter because of pre-election security. Undeterred, he flew to Lebanon, stayed with family friends and flew to Baghdad on Christmas. After a day in Iraq, he contacted the Associated Press there, which alerted the U.S. embassy. It sent Hassan home and warned other...
Francine N. Schweitzer, a commuter from Westchester who was able to take a cab for metered fare from Grand Central Station this morning, said her daughter had a taxi driver who tried to charge her $25 to get from the West Side to the East Side. Several taxi drivers refused to comment on fares during the strike...
...allowed them to camp on his land, and he has established a fund to help villagers rebuild their demolished homes. From his tent office, he's fighting with Pakistan's bureaucracy to send in bulldozers and start clearing out the fallen buildings. Even while hustling fares in his taxi, Khan says, he was convinced that God had something special in mind for him: "I just didn't know what it was until the earthquake happened...
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