GETTING WHERE?(The Talk of the Town)(transit strike, New York City)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 09-JAN-06

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And on the second day spam arrived. It read, "New Meditation CDs Equip Professionals Around the World to Conquer Daily Tasks with Zeal and Confidence." Glad to hear it, but this did not address the problem of getting to and from work. If meditation had wheels and could sneak through checkpoints--if it could fit four--surely people would be taking it to the office. Otherwise, forget it. Thirty hours into the transit strike, the first here in twenty-five years, zeal and confidence, in abundance at the beginning, had already started to fade. Conveyance-deprivation was by then a numbing fact, along with cold air and the realization that for...

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