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Well, what can Harvard do to increase transit time without decreasing class time? It could adopt a staggered class schedule. This means that as the day progresses, classes start later into the hour. This is implemented at other Ivies, like Cornell, which actually affords a 20 minute break between each class. Of course, the Cornell equivalent of going from the Science Center to the top of Lamont involves crossing tundras and scaling frozen waterfalls...
...hand, the law's mandate requiring universal access to public buildings, transit systems and communications networks has made a once daunting world more navigable. Curb ramps, lift-equipped buses and extrawide rest-room stalls for wheelchair users are now as common a feature of the American landscape as are closed-captioned TV titles. A phone relay system called Text Telephone enables the deaf to order pizza. "There's a guy in Georgia who has a job for the first time because his bus has a lift, and a woman in Kentucky who's seen her brother play baseball...
Later, at a Bay Area Rapid Transit station in Berkeley, Breslin had to wheel backward into a small, smelly elevator, while other people used escalators. Martinez, who also rides BART, feels safe there, thanks to bumps, or "edge detection strips" that warn the blind away from the edge of the platforms. Despite the tight-elevator problem, bart is regarded as a disability-rights pioneer. "It was such a treat to take this train when I came to California years ago," says Breslin, who was raised in the Midwest. "I'd never lived anywhere where there was access...
...reach the trail by rail. The Boston subway system, part of the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) and called the T, is the oldest in the nation. And its four lines (red, green, blue and orange) will take you everywhere you need to go for just 85 cents a ride...
Zedillo: We know that the traffickers move huge amounts of money, most of which doesn't remain in Mexico. The bulk of the money stays in either the consuming or the producing countries. Mexico is mainly a place of transit. I don't think the drug business is meaningful for our economy, but it is meaningful to the extent that it brings with it violence, crime and corruption. We have many former policemen in jail because of links to drug trafficking, but we don't have hard evidence on whether the traffickers have penetrated other spheres of power. There...