Subway
As cities have become increasingly congested with vehicular traffic, mass transit systems have been developed to relieve traffic jams, taking passengers to their destinations without the need f...
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To the Editor:
The editorial “The Soggy Subways” [Aug. 20] reminded me of history everyone has forgotten.
The original B.M.T. (Brooklyn Manhattan Rapid Transit) and I.R.T. (Interboro ...
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Exhibition on Princess Diana opens in London
Wiesbaden/London (dpa) An exhibition coinciding with the tenth
anniversary of the death of Britain's Princess Diana ...
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To William Barclay Parsons, civil engineering wasn't just about crunching numbers and solving technical matters. It was far more. He saw his career choice as "a tool for expanding America's wealth ...
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ISLAMABAD, Jan 3 (Reuters) - President Pervez Musharraf
should stand down for the sake of stability in Pakistan, a
Brussels-based think-tank said in a report on the deteriorating
situation followi...
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A highway ramp shut down by the collapse of an overpass near the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge won't have to be rebuilt from scratch and could reopen within 10 days, the governor said Wednesday....
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Selected editorial excerpts from the Japanese press:
THE IMPERIAL FAMILY (IHT/Asahi as translated from the
Japanese-language Asahi Shimbun's editorial published Feb. 24)
Many parents com...
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Taipei (dpa) - Taiwan on Sunday suspended operations of the newly
launched, French-built Taipei cable-car system following a breakdown
that caused 232 tourists to hang for t...
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Jakarta (dpa) - The Indonesia government is planning to build a
mass rapid transit (MRT) system costing 900 million dollars in an
attempt to ease congestion in its traffic-c...
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Some people love the romance of long-distance railroad travel. Some like to step off the curb and hail a cab. But others prefer the screech and rumble of subways - and the more arcane and exotic th...
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Subway
Express Train to the Past
