Word: trams
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...conductor there asked an elderly disabled passenger to pay his fare last week and the old man used his crutches to pummel the conductor - because he'd never had to pay before. Not in Tula, 165 km south of Moscow, where more than 40 such assaults on bus and tram conductors were recorded in just three days. Not in Khimki on the outskirts of Moscow, where several thousand travelers heading for the airport missed their flights because a thousand furious pensioners blocked the highway for three hours. And certainly not in St. Petersburg on Saturday, where 10,000 brought downtown...
...horned rhinos wallowing in the mud, sloth bears eyeing you suspiciously from overhead branches, and the newest feature, flying squirrels the size of cats, gliding among the treetops. Visitors can walk along paths that cut through the park's 16 lush hectares or take a 45-minute guided tram ride. There's also a special 40-minute show that brings the animals right up close. And unlike their drunken human counterparts in the bars a short drive hence, these creatures of the night don't need inebriants to make them wild...
...wonder one-horned rhinos wallowing in the mud, sloth bears eyeing you suspiciously from overhead branches, and the newest feature, flying squirrels the size of cats, gliding among the treetops. Visitors can walk along paths that cut through the park's 16 lush hectares or take a 45-minute tram ride with a guide who will tell you about how, with one kick, a giraffe can disembowel a lion. There's also a special 40-minute show that brings the animals right up close. And unlike their drunken human counterparts in the bars a short drive away, these creatures...
...more traditional--and simple--sites, including the shitamachi, or low city. "This city is a succession of villages, and in each one the atmosphere is that of a different world," he explains. One of his favorite routes is from Waseda University down to the Minowabashi station on the Arakawa tram line. "It's a part of Tokyo that did not burn during World War II, so you can still find the small houses and the covered markets of the past," he explains. "And the people all know each other." Another favorite of his in shitamachi Tokyo, north of the Ikebukuro...
...Tzamaloukas had stopped dancing. The absence of the tram had turned into a taunt. "We are very sensitive at the moment," said Evangelos Stathatos, a teacher. "It's this Olympics business." Stathatos was speaking not of the record $7.2 billion that Greece is pouring into the Games nor of the frantic sprint to modernize Athens but of something more personal and painful: the worldwide presumption that the reputedly party-loving, responsibility-shirking Greeks are about to screw up one of humanity's more pleasant diversions. "The world believes that Athens is not ready, that we do not know...