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...AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts said last week it will file suit against the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) over the authority's refusal to run a series of ads on MBTA train billboards encouraging the use of condoms...
Peter Erbland, communications coordinator at the AIDS Action Committee, criticized the transit authority yesterday...
...when Clinton's "Climate Change Action Plan" finally debuted last week, environmentalists could muster only faint praise. Aimed at rolling back greenhouse emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2000, the document lists 50 initiatives, including incentives to spur use of public transit and expanded programs to promote energy efficiency. But there are two major omissions: the plan does nothing to raise auto-fuel-economy standards, and it contains no | energy-tax hikes to boost conservation...
Sidhwa's rewriting of the journey to America similarly succeeds. Pakistan International Airlines stops in Dubai where Feroza acquires a duty-free cassette player and camera, then continues to London where she finds herself reading an Agatha Christie novel in a transit lounge. With these scenes, Sidhwa drives home the point that things have changed...
...where more than 50 Arab relief agencies and unofficial groups had offices. The mujahedin received an estimated $3.5 billion in financial support from the CIA as well, which bankrolled training for the Muslim warriors in the use of explosives and modern weapons. Abouhalima settled in one of the many transit houses known as the House of Friends, where young Arabs were often crammed four to a room...