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...Black Forest in southwestern Germany has reduced the use of cars by laying down a lattice of bike paths, introducing a flat-rate fare for all public transport, and expanding bus and tram lines. Commuters from the suburbs can easily catch a bus, tram or bike from the central train station, so more and more of them leave their cars at home. The result: between 1982 and 1999, just over a quarter of all journeys were made by bike and 18% by public transportation, up from 15% and 11% respectively; car travel fell during the same period from...
...thinking about programs for the poor. As a middle-class Republican, not an ultraconservative, I want better things for our country, but I do not want to support someone for life and perpetuate a cycle of poverty and welfare dependence. I am willing to invest in programs that train poor people for employment and allow them to contribute to society by paying taxes like the rest of us. Let's have a Congressional Antipoverty Caucus, as Klein suggests, and base aid on economic need rather than race. I don't want to give handouts. I want to invest...
...blockmates and I tried our hardest to enjoy our dinner, but it was impossible. You two were like a train wreck—awful, but we felt compelled to watch. At one point, one of you knelt on the floor with your fingers in the other’s mouth...
...unique opportunity to compete. Junior Katie Golden and sophomore Lizzie Rose are two such special people.Both row for the Radcliffe heavyweights, and both were in Cambridge for the summer—Rose because she lives here and Golden for an internship with Massachusetts General Hospital.The two would train together in the boathouse, and when that got boring they would train outside together. Eventually they began rowing a pair together on the Charles, and that got them thirsting for the sweet nectar of competition.Enter Canadian Henley, a well-known regatta that ran during this summer from August...
...years, the federal government has tried to assist Amtrak’s bid to provide this travel need, but fares offered by the beleaguered passenger train service remain distressingly high. For travel times of over four hours, standard round-trip tickets between Boston and New York cost around $110, and for service via the crown jewel of the Amtrak network—namely, the “high-speed” Acela train—these prices rise to over $200 for trips that last only an hour less. JetBlue, on the other hand, offers round-trip tickets ranging from...