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...York's subways. Subway fare was recently increased to a whopping $1.50 per trip, but the MTA continues to squander incredible sums of money. For example, the MTA recently purchased expensive imported Italian floor tiles for subway stations. The pricy new tiles turned out to be slippery when wet; all of them had to be ripped out and replaced...
...these "curry westerns" or "wet-sari musicals" have been released in North America, in theaters or on video. So Scarecrow Video's issuing of God Is My Witness, in a handsome, digitally remastered print, is an event worth singing about, as any Indian film hero would...
...spend billions of dollars on missions to planets. If we do discover life in space, what then? Do we invite the space microbes (which is all that's determined to be in the rock) for a visit to the White House? Call me a wet blanket if you wish, but I'm not impressed. PREMNATH KUDVA Mangalore, India Via E-mail...
...million Americans go camping every year, and apparently many of them are redefining their idea of rugged outdoorsmanship. Nowadays campers can languish in multiroom tents, cuddle up in adjustable-temperature sleeping bags, roast game hens in "outback ovens." "People don't want to go outdoors and get dirty and wet," explains Tom Huggler, author of The Camper's and Backpacker's Bible. "They want to be safe and comfortable, and they want a smooth experience." And they are willing to pay for it. According to the National Sporting Goods Association, a trade group, sales of camping and backpacking equipment...
...that I can get too wet-eyed about a creature that sees me essentially as a high-protein pick-me-up. If there's any reason to keep bears around, it's because they are, in fact, beaten--reduced to a few thousand representatives of a once mighty race, driven back into some of the loneliest real estate in the land. Glacier National Park, with its few hundred surviving grizzlies, is a lot safer than Central Park. Why, there's even a faction of scientists that wants to keep smallpox around, although one cleverly deployed tube of the stuff could...