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...America in another way: as soon as a new path to self-fulfillment opens up, it is crowded with a rainbow assortment of followers. In inner-city Washington, popular sessions with new practitioners are held each week in a house that stands in the shadow of the I-395 expressway. Out in genteel Manassas, Va., famed for its Civil War battlefield and white frame buildings, Falun Gong practitioners meet on the weekend at a most traditional venue: the Episcopal church...
...biked home and fatally bludgeoned his mother. The month before, a teen broke into a house and knifed a woman to death because, he told police, "I wanted to experience killing." The same month, a 17-year-old boy hijacked a bus, forced the driver into a 19-hr. expressway odyssey and killed a passenger along the way. Also in May another teen was accused of severely beating a sleeping commuter-train passenger with a hammer...
...been made silicon. On my VII, I've received e-mail from my wife while riding under Manhattan ("Stop showing that thing in the subway!" she wrote. "You'll lose it...") and whined at editors while on the railroad whizzing to work. I've read real-time Long Island Expressway traffic updates while sitting in my office 23 floors above the ground--and, after ignoring them, bailed myself out with custom-made driving directions while stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic. I've looked up local movie listings, browsed synopses of techtrends on Slashdot.org (a website whose motto is "News...
There certainly seem to be some large holes in the ground, some big cranes on the skyline and a new way to get onto the South-East Expressway every other day. What, one may ask, are all those pile drivers, wrecking balls and backhoes doing for the common good? Get ready, because the Artery will soon be blasted up and replaced by some pretty fountains, park benches and begonias. In 1991, the Central Artery/Tunnel Project, affectionately (or not so affectionately) known as The Big Dig, was started to combat ferocious traffic problems in the Boston area. The plan called...
...other side of the Southeast Expressway, at South Boston's Condon School, the voters seemed less polarized--both in their opinions and their party affiliations...