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• Bikers strap on fruit, pots to dodge helmet law
One columnist said transportation can already carry a health risk, and recounted how he had picked up a bedbug while sitting on a bus. "The story is that people who have scabies, craw-craw, ringworm, dandruff and all other such diseases would easily ...
• U.S. 2008 planned layoffs most in five years
The automotive industry was the second-biggest downsizing industry of the year, with 127,281 announced cuts followed by transportation at 82,859. The financial sector also topped the December layoffs with 39,604. The Challenger data comes ahead of the ...
• Ice, snow cause disruptions in Northeast
Transportation officials say avalanches shut down all but one lane on U.S. 2 across Stevens Pass through the Cascades. High winds closed Interstate 82 between Yakima and Ellensburg in central Washington and wind warnings are posted for much of the ...
• Bring toilet paper and hand warmers
After calculating how many people can physically enter the city by Metro buses and subways, charter buses and other forms of transportation, estimates have been scaled back to a bit to somewhere between 2 and 3 million people. There’s no way to ...
• Inauguration tests troubled transportation grid
Jan. 4: Jeffrey Goldberg, Katty Kay, Hisham Melhem, Andrea Mitchell and David Sanger discuss the task at hand for President-elect Barack Obama with NBC’s David Gregory on “Meet the Press.” WASHINGTON - On a typical weekday, close to 2 million ...