Word: transport
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...study recommended, among other precautions, neighborhood response plans “to transport isolated persons to facilities with adequate air conditioning,” such as malls and movie theaters...
...request of senior U.S. officials, the Post didn't identify the East European sites. But Human Rights Watch, which has tracked flight routes for a Boeing 737 the CIA has used to transport prisoners, says agency detention facilities have probably been in Poland and Romania, staunch U.S. allies in the Iraq war. Officials from both countries have denied holding CIA prisoners, as have Thai authorities...
...Spills The breakup of the tanker Braer near Britain's Shetland Islands did a lot less damage than one might expect from 26 million gal. of escaped crude oil. But after another major spill near the Strait of Malacca, off Sumatra, Britain's Transport Secretary concluded that the number of substandard tankers on the seas was an ''international disgrace.'' A Shell International Petroleum report claimed that 20% of the world's fleet was unfit for duty...
...medieval city, but private cars are conspicuously absent. That's because for the past 20 years, this university town nestled in the Black Forest in southwestern Germany has reduced the use of cars by laying down a lattice of bike paths, introducing a flat-rate fare for all public transport, and expanding bus and tram lines. Commuters from the suburbs can easily catch a bus, tram or bike from the central train station, so more and more of them leave their cars at home. The result: between 1982 and 1999, just over a quarter of all journeys were made...
...Year 7 of the Second Transport and Communications Decade in Africa...