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...trouble began Friday evening when five locomotives abruptly stopped on the tracks in the Channel Tunnel between London and Paris, trapping more than 2,000 passengers with no food, water or news about what was going on for up to 16 hours. Those people eventually made it out of the tunnel -but nobody else has boarded a Eurostar train between the cities, or to Brussels, since then. Service is due to restart on Tuesday, provided officials can ensure that the trains won't break down in the tunnel again. (See pictures of snow crippling London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Eurostar Breakdown: 'Tis the Season to Be Livid | 12/21/2009 | See Source »

...latest projects—which were initiated by the HCL sector leaders for the University’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Program—also include installing energy-efficient compact fluorescent bulbs and turning off half the lights in the tunnel between Widener and Lamont, according to the release...

Author: By Barbara B. Depena, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HCL Ups Sustainable Initiatives | 12/18/2009 | See Source »

...believe we are beginning to see a light at the end of the tunnel,” Smith said at yesterday’s Faculty meeting. “We are not done by any means yet, but it is also a start to resolve some of these questions and theoretically give some comfort to people about the direction of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...

Author: By Noah S. Rayman and Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Dean Smith Presents Positive Picture of FAS Finances at Faculty Meeting | 12/16/2009 | See Source »

...almost 11,000 narco-related slayings in the past two years. Because the nation's police forces are so corrupt - many cops moonlight for Mexico's $25 billion drug-trafficking industry - informants are especially important to interdiction efforts. (They helped cops last week locate a sophisticated, 260-yard narco-tunnel beneath Tijuana that almost reached the U.S. border.) Despite that, Mexican officials concede they have an utterly inadequate witness-protection system in place. "There is a vacuum regarding the rules and how to operate a witness-protection program," a high-level source inside the Mexican attorney general's office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico's Witness-Protection Program: What Protection? | 12/8/2009 | See Source »

...structure of the site, erecting tents to accommodate pilgrims and building multi-level pathways to eliminate congestion. Overcrowding and occasional stampedes have led to the deaths by trampling of thousands of worshippers over the years; most notably the 1990 incident where 1,426 people were crushed inside a tunnel connecting the Holy sites. While there is no way to know how hard the swine flu epidemic will hit worshipers this year, the tenacity of pilgrims has shown that there is little that can keep them away from this experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hajj | 11/25/2009 | See Source »

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