Work is underway on a new £33.27 billion rail line to connect millions of people. The Chūō Shinkansen is a Japanese train line under construction between Tokyo and Nagoya, with plans to extend to Osaka. The initial section is between Shinagawa Station in Tokyo and Nagoya Station in Nagoya, serving Sagamihara, Kofu, Iida and Nakatsugawa…
TEL AVIV—The main nerve center for Israel’s primary emergency service might resemble any dispatch center in any American city— a hive of uniformed first responders surrounded by expanses of ceiling-height monitors and computers. But Magen David Adom’s dispatch unit in Ramla, about 12 miles southeast of Tel Aviv, lies more than 100 feet underground, protected…
London — Could a few lines of verse improve the journey? In short, this is the question asked four decades ago by Judith Chernack, an American writer in London, who wondered whether posting poems inside subway cars could enlighten, entertain, and inspire riders. Poems on the Underground, A project celebrating its 40th anniversary this year…
