Podcar vision grows in Ithaca amid transit debate
In Ithaca New York Jacob Roberts leads a group backing personal rapid transit or podcars as a practical future for urban mobility. They envision driverless electric cars at block‑to‑block stations offering private autonomy with public transit benefits and reduced fossil fuel use.
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Beirut cleans up posters to ease sectarian tensions in Lebanon
In Beirut and Basra factions remove political portraits to defuse violence after years of sectarian strife. Leaders like Nasrallah and Hariri posters disappear as negotiations target suburbs and broader reconciliation.
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Japanese decry removal of N. Korea from list
In Tokyo and Seoul reactions followed the Bush administration move to drop North Korea from a terrorism blacklist. Japan’s families of kidnapped victims call the decision a betrayal, while South Korea views it as progress toward ending the North’s nuclear program. Teruaki Masumoto, relative of abductees, condemns the move.
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Pope Benedict XVI canonizes India's first woman saint
The Vatican declares Sister Maria Bernarda born Veronica Buetler in 1848 a saint while denouncing anti Christian violence in India and Iraq. The canonization highlights a 19th century nun’s life and work.
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