Sunday, August 8th, 2010
Caitlin Fitzsimmons One of the F Line's late-1940s streetcars is painted in the livery of the Los Angeles Railway Co., which used this type of streetcar from 1937 to 1963.The F trams should not be confused with the city's famous antique cable cars, which are crowded and tickets cost $5. The F is a regular commuter service, and your $2 transfer from the city's transit network is valid.
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Retired streetcars from worldwide get new duty on San Francisco's colorful F Line
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Sunday, June 20th, 2010
New York and other big cities fought their garbage wars. These days the battle over trash is in the rural outlands.
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Goodbye, city dump; hello, rural landfill
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
Our chakras can block us or free us, says Shirley Desai. by Anneli Rufus Even though her ancestors founded a Hindu temple in southern India and her grandfather authored a scholarly book about the Upanishads, Shirley Desai practiced no religion while growing up as a first-generation American. Then, in her thirties, she went into business. "I was looking for a model to better understand and ...
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Power Points (East Bay Express)
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Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
In one of his last acts as chairman of the state’s high speed rail authority, Quentin Kopp is proposing that shuttered auto plants be converted into bullet train factories.
Continue here: Call to shift car plants to bullet trains (San Francisco Business Times)
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Saturday, June 27th, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO — He's the reason adults of a certain age can't stop themselves from finishing the song line beginning "M-I-C-K-E-Y," the force causing untold legions to see marching mops when they hear the rousing strains of "The Sorcerer's Apprentice."
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Museum celebrates remarkable life of Walt Disney (The San Francisco Examiner)
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Thursday, February 12th, 2009
While the De Young Museum and the new Academy of Sciences building are the star draws in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park these days, a good time can also be had just around the corner in their enduring elegant Victorian cousin, the glass Conservatory of Flowers.
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Model Trains in Golden Gate Park (The Berkeley Daily Planet)
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Sunday, February 1st, 2009
The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) has signed a lengthy, 20-year contract with WiFi Rail to provide Wi-Fi services throughout the BART transit system and on all BART commuter trains.
Continue here: San Francisco Public Transport to Get Wi-Fi Coverage (Cellular-News.com)
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