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...pools, shuttle services to transit stations, new bicycle storage facilities, ride-sharing, and guaranteed rides home to car poolers in case of emergency are among the expanded commuting benefits Harvard now offers to its staff, according to Holly Hogle, manager of Harvard’s Commuter Choice Program (HCCP...
Harvard has also committed over $100,000 annually to provide a 40 percent subsidy for the mass transit expenses of its nearly 12,000 employees...
...example, the site recently added a commute calculator—designed by Benjamin H. Yolken ’02—which allows employees to compare the cost of driving to work alone against carpooling and mass transit according to their commuting distance...
...cash. Pakistani extremist groups such as Jaish-e-Muhammad shared terrorist camps near the Afghan towns of Khost and Kandahar with al-Qaeda, according to Western diplomats and foreign intelligence officials in Islamabad. The Pakistanis provided al-Qaeda agents a network of safe houses in Pakistan to facilitate their transit in and out of Afghanistan. They also vetted new recruits for al-Qaeda and laundered terrorist funds through a global network of illegal money changers. It was no surprise to foreign spooks that the ISI let the Egyptian-Canadian Khadr escape from Peshawar. He knew too much, they say, about...
Local color adds tremendously to the novel; rather than set the tale in a generic Anytown, U.S.A., Montgomery places the action square in Baltimore. The reader will be delighted by small details like the Light Rail transit line and Dick’s Sporting Goods in Hunt Valley Mall (where one can actually buy paintball gear). Institutions and landmarks like the Baltimore Orioles and the Gunpowder River are not simply bandied about to lend an air of authenticity. Attention to such detail is crucial, as Montgomery uses his familiarity with fisherman’s lingo and military life to good...