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Exchange e-mail messages with your fellow riders to ease and speed your commute. Use your mobile e-mail device to navigate delays via timely info from people making the same trip as you. Get the help of your colleagues who are actually there (or have j

(tags: Mass_Transit)

Scientists believe they may have glimpsed a “law of war” that can be used to predict the likelihood of attacks in modern conflicts, from conventional battles to global terrorism.

This is the kind of leadership we need in Washington - if only it worked on groups larger than twenty!

Windows down or AC up?

Boston’s Tim Wakefield, a 16-year veteran, is the only true knuckleballer in MLB
Tim McCarver said trying to hit it is like “trying to catch a butterfly with tweezers.” The knuckle has little margin for error. One mistake and it could result in a homer

Good profile of an industry built on the sheer stupidity of the American consumer.

On Monday, March 10, the rumor started: Bear Stearns was having liquidity problems. In fact, the maverick investment bank had around $18 billion in cash reserves. But soon the speculation created its own reality, and the race was on to keep Bear’s crisi

American bankers handled his loot. Oil companies play by his rules. The Bush administration woos him. How the pursuit of oil is propping up the West African dictatorship of Teodoro Obiang.

Over four decades, Russell Means has led an insurrection, posed for Andy Warhol, aspired to be an assassin and been arguably the most influential public figure in fighting racism against the American Indian. Now, in his quest to start his own country…

If you’re wondering what Boston will look and feel like in 10 years - the shape of our skyline, the boldness of our buildings, the run of our streets - you need to know Kairos Shen.

On June 24, 2008, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Matthew Bryza delivered the ninth Turgut Ozal Memorial Lecture at The Washington Institute. The following is the prepared text of his remarks

A hapless shell of a government. A nasty Islamist insurgency. A looming humanitarian disaster. Somalia is the most dangerous failed state on the planet, and even international troubleshooters are keeping their distance.

For the first time in centuries, the region from Western China to Iran and from the Steppes of Russia to Northern India can and, this essay argues, should be viewed as an entity. Possessed of significant natural resources, and forming…

(tags: Central_Asia)

The Oman Studies Centre was founded in Germany in 1975 as a documentation centre on Oman and the Arabian Gulf. It is an independent, non-governmental and non-profit academic institution which mainly collects information on Oman to assist and coordinate re

It was a compelling idea: In the digitized world, there’s more money to be made in niche offerings than in blockbusters. The data tell a different story.