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Last night, the posh Neva Express train, favored by senior officials and business people, was blown up by a homemade bomb in the Novgorod area en route from Moscow to St. Petersburg. Some four pounds (2 kg) of explosives derailed the train, wiping out 800 meters of track. Sixty people were reported injured, about half-dozen in critical condition. Only the train's high speed saved hundreds from death...
...morning of our Belgium trip, my friend Liz and I boarded the first Eurostar train out of Waterloo International Station, blurry eyed from lack of sleep but excited for the weekend to come (worthy of its own postcard). As we waited for our train to pull out from the station, I turned to her and said, “You know what? Europeans are so lucky and I don’t even know if they realize how lucky they are. They can just hop onto a train and go to Paris for Bastille Day or Venice for Carnival without...
...fill the gap with new graduates because the schools can't compete in this overheated marketplace for the experienced nurses they need as teachers. "Clinical salaries are so high that nurses don't want to leave for academia," says NLN CEO Beverly Malone. "But how do you train new nurses without teachers...
...improvements will be cutting it close. While Olympic committee members touted "significant construction progress" on five rail lines in an Aug. 6 press conference, completion of some key routes is not scheduled until next summer. Two more subway lines are scheduled to be finished next June, while an express train from the airport won't be running until July...
...Despite training dive crews for a multitude of scenarios, Chandler said he's never seen anything of this magnitude. "We train for all various types of diving but we've never put all of them together in one spot like we have now," he said. "In all my years of diving experience, I never have experienced the conditions we're in now." Says Chandler, "I worry about the guys down there...