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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...music festival with 36,000 people when we walked right past each other. We didn’t exchange a word, but a creepy sense of recognition was definitely there.But besides reading time and a freakish connection with Mystery Man From Brazil, three hours a day of transit have given me valuable perspective. Working at a nonprofit social services agency designing a pre-employment program for low-income youth living in public housing (and getting to and from it), I have come to realize my situation is, well, quite ideal. I’m lucky enough to have a stipend...

Author: By Emma M. Lind, | Title: To and From Home | 8/4/2006 | See Source »

...MASS TRANSIT HopStop This incredibly useful site provides step-by-step directions via bus or subway in four cities: New York, Boston, Washington and San Francisco. Plug in start and end points and you get clear instructions, alternative options and maps. The site factors in service changes and provides alternative routes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel and Real Estate | 8/3/2006 | See Source »

SCREEN SAVER The newest Mac laptop, the MacBook Pro, has a built-in camera for videoconferencing. For the less sure-handed, there's a motion sensor to protect your files if the machine gets bounced in transit. This sleek laptop is an inch thin, although it weighs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Tech It With You | 7/12/2006 | See Source »

...very concerned about the coming penny Armageddon. "At some point you'll find a burgeoning business of people melting them down to metal," says Kolbe, "and selling them back to the Mint for more pennies." Kolbe, who advocates rounding to the nearest nickel, argues that parking meters, Laundromats, transit systems and vending machines don't accept pennies. Merchants hate them and won't let you pay for things with a stack of them. They pile up or get thrown away to such an extent that the Mint made 8 billion new ones last year--far more than any other coin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Common Cents | 7/10/2006 | See Source »

...that record pump prices, geopolitics and global warming are taking the pleasure out of driving. The future of cars will definitely depend on alternatives to the traditional combustion engine, such as fuel cells that burn hydrogen and emit clean water exhaust. But until we get there, a variety of transitional technologies will try to squeeze as much efficiency as possible out of traditional engines. All major manufacturers are now rolling out hybrid cars that combine electric or alternative-fuel-burning engines with standard gas and diesel engines. Loremo believes that its models will be the first ultralight cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Driving On The Light Side | 7/9/2006 | See Source »

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