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Then it hit me. My 30-day pass for the subway expired on March 26. It would cost $81 to get a new one (and it will probably cost more than $100 in a couple of months thanks to rising mass-transit fares). After I added up a handful of things I knew I'd have to spend money on in the coming days - a birthday card for my niece, a co-pay for a doctor's visit - I simply didn't have the money...
Harvard offers a subsidy to eligible employees to purchase public transit passes from the MBTA, and there has been no word so far from the University that increased fares would change these benefits...
...while Turkey would not allow U.S. troops to transit its territory on the way in to Iraq, it has said it will allow them to pass through Turkey on their way out, in line with President Obama's withdrawal plans. Ankara may play an even larger role in Afghanistan, another key focus of the Obama Administration. Turkey already has about 800 troops on the ground as part of the NATO mission there, and could potentially provide more - the Obama Administration is currently struggling to convince other European NATO allies to send reinforcements. Washington could also seek Ankara's help...
...trapped in tiny postal packages, many birds will be crushed or suffocated in transportation. Most websites promised to pack extra chicks to account for the inevitable fatalities in the two to three days of transit. Premium sites even offered to insure my cargo against the off-chance that all birds show up dead...
...North Korea to give up its nuclear-weapons program, got quite a reception when he arrived on his first official visit to Seoul this week. The North Korean government in Pyongyang shut down the last military communication line between the two countries on the divided peninsula, temporarily halted all transit to and from a special industrial zone just north of the border and declared that if the U.S. or Japan should try to shoot down a long-range missile the North is expected to test soon, it would retaliate with a military strike of its own. "I have no illusions...