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• Town keeps Laurel and Hardy's legacy alive
But anyone driving along Interstate 20 near the South Carolina state line can't miss the big brown sign pointing to the museum in Harlem, a sleepy hamlet of 1,800 founded 140 years ago along the now-defunct Georgia Railroad line. Hardy's mustachioed ...
• Delta's shuttle scuttlebutt
Its traffic climbed 7.7 percent during the first 10 months of Amtrak's current fiscal year, and the service accounts for more than 25 percent of the railroad's total nationwide revenue. I'm not nostalgic about planes or airlines, but I miss the ...
• Unlocking the secrets of memory
The device, a microchip currently being tested in rats, would perform the same railroad-switch function as the hippocampus does, accepting thoughts on one end and then shunting them into long-term memory on the other. The implications are astounding ...
• Rail Safety Legislation Awaits President Bush's Signature
The legislation would prohibit freight train and signal crews from working more than 12 hours per day and 276 hours per month; establish minimum training standards for railroad workers; ban cell phone use in locomotive cabs; and increase funding for ...
• Process this: A kaput-critter computer
In response, the railroad agreed to fit the special chairs so the driver can turn and relieve himself out the window without having to get up from the controls. This innovation must also have added benefit of encouraging train riders to step away from ...