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Since the bullet train is still being tested on safety runs, I took one of the less glamorous trains that feature refurbished cars pulled by the electric Acela engine. With a coach seat running $112 round trip off-peak and $142 peak, the Acela Regional is cheaper than the cheapest coach seat on the Delta Air Lines shuttle between these two cities...
...STAYING Rather than move to sunny states like Arizona and Florida, most of America's 78 million baby boomers will retire in the metropolitan areas where they spent their peak career years, according to a recent report released by the Milken Institute. Demographers also predict that greater wealth and fewer children will allow many retiring boomers to enjoy a post-professional lifestyle lusher than any previous generation...
...lived on the streets during 1984 and 1985 at the peak of his battle with alcoholism...
...This weekend was the difference between home ice and not making the playoffs," Stay said. "We're hitting our peak at just the right time...
...from her camp in Kenya's Amboseli National Park to the eastern edge of nearby Longinye swamp. Our job: to count and identify the elephants as observers in an airplane estimate numbers from above. Behind us, across the border in Tanzania, looms the hulking mass of Africa's highest peak, Mount Kilimanjaro, its snow-capped dome giving way to gently sloping flanks that shimmer blue in the dying light. Crumpled along the horizon to the west and east are distant smaller mountains: Chyulu, Ol Dionyo Orok and Longido. To the north is nothing but huge sky and endless plain...