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Forget the national Opera?today's up-and-coming performers would rather be heard on the subway. Paris' transit authority RATP is fast becoming a hotly contested sound stage. Since 1997, Antoine Naso, a 21-year RATP veteran and the authority's self-designated artistic director, has selected a range of entertainers to fill the Metro's tentacular halls with world music, rock and jazz standards or classical melodies...
...Luongo, a part-time inspector for the Massachusetts Transit Authority sitting on a bench across the street from Chili’s, said that he was also unaware the restaurant had closed...
...says Paul Buchanan, a former U.S. defense and security consultant who teaches politics at Auckland University. "And the logistics of trying to mount an attack here are rather insurmountable." The only reasons a terrorist might visit New Zealand, Buchanan says, would be "to hide, or if they're in transit to someplace else...
During my morning commute, I read "How We Got Homeland Security Wrong," about how the government allocates funds to prevent and respond to terrorist attacks [March 29]. After I walked through Grand Central Station, I entered New York City's crowded transit system and rode past the site of the World Trade Center and the Federal Reserve building, finally arriving at my job in the city's financial district. So I was amazed to read that the government has allotted $61 a person to make the prairies of Wyoming safe from terrorists and less than $25 for each New Yorker...
Since 9/11, U.S. transit officials have made some changes. Amtrak and big-city subways have added police and dog units and removed some large, bomb-ready fixtures--like trash cans and vending machines. At Amtrak, names given by passengers are checked against various government watch lists (a spokesman declined to say which ones). Last week Amtrak upped security patrols and electronic surveillance of tracks, bridges and tunnels...