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...necessary to block a real organized assault on our coast." Time got a rare look last week at the conditions in which some of Libya's would-be immigrants find themselves. In Tripoli's El-Fellah neighborhood, several hundred Ghanaians and Nigerians sleep in tents in a walled-off transit camp topped with coils of barbed wire and guarded by Libyan police. Although a police guard bolted the gate when Time walked toward it, migrants outside said the camp was overflowing. People are waiting for a flight, not to Europe, but back home. "Our embassies told us that Libya doesn...
...great thing about Boston: its mass transit system leaves Boston. With some pocket change, you can go rock-climbing in the suburbs, gallery-hopping in Providence, thoroughbred-racing in East Boston and even Revolutionary-War-reenacting in Lexington...
...Having relocated from the relatively orderly city of Bombay to the chaotic city of Bangalore, I feel that one of the main reasons for traffic disorder is the lack of proper public transport in Bangalore. It is something like the difference between New York City (with its effective mass-transit system) and Los Angeles. I remember waiting for a long time for buses in suburban California. Lack of public transport increases the number of vehicles on the roads, and that in turn reduces the amount of public transport. It is a vicious circle. Bangalore traffic is so bad that...
...noted that it might be difficult to drive trucks or vans into the parking lot. Black limousines, however, could approach without much trouble. The report proposed acquiring a limo, gutting everything except the front seats and presumably filling it with explosives. It then provided details on the New Jersey Transit rail system and nearby PATH trains and maps of the network and train timetables--suggesting that instead of deploying a suicide-bomb squad, al-Qaeda may have been exploring ways to escape after pulling off the attack...
DATA GATHERED Terrorists conducted heavy surveillance of the parking garage beneath the structure in Newark, N.J. They noted the repeated entry of black limos but doubted whether trucks and vans would be allowed in. Reports include extensive information on the New Jersey Transit and PATH passenger-rail systems, maps of the network and train timetables...