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...Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) will be replacing all the remaining 86 34-year-old Red Line cars over the remainder of the calendar year with new, up-to-date train cars...
...offered Rwanda military aid--1,000 troops--to help distribute the food and medical supplies already being delivered, according to the Rwandan Prime Minister. Faustin Twagiramungu said he'll respond tomorrow. The U.S. forces reportedly would use the Rwandan capital, Kigali, as a transit point instead of the jammed airport near refugee camps in the Zairian border town of Goma. The bottlenecked Goma has proved a frustrating place from which to launch a rescue effort, even though the largest contingent of refugees has gathered in and around the city. U.S. aircraft landed there today with vital equipment to purify contaminated...
...movie has two virtues essential to good pop thrillers. First, it plugs uncomplicatedly into lurking anxieties -- in this case the ones we brush aside when we daily surrender ourselves to mass transit in a world where the loonies are everywhere. Second, it is executed with panache and utter conviction. Possibly this is because Speed is the first feature for director Jan De Bont and writer Graham Yost, and they haven't yet learned all the bad things that can happen to good (and not so good) moviemakers in Hollywood. They can get all the instruction they need about such failings...
...worst plane crash in China's history killed 160 today, raising more concerns that the booming air-transit business there is understaffed and poorly equipped. The Chinese airline industry has long had a troubling safety record, made worse in recent years by a proliferation of used Russian aircraft in its fleets. Today's tragedy, which included two American passengers, involved a Soviet made...
Retailers of all kinds are going the cashless way. Supermarkets such as Safeway and Giant, fast-food restaurants such as Wendy's and Burger King, newspaper stands in Philadelphia's CoreStates Bank Plaza and even some taxis in Manhattan are now accepting credit cards. The New York City transit authority has joined the Washington Metro and the Bay Area Rapid Transit line in installing a fare-card system, which has contributed to a 40% drop in fare beating this year and could soon be used to introduce different price levels that reward frequent riders. Some states, among them Maryland...