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    Food
    Ireland's Supreme Court ruled that Subway bread shouldn't be classified as bread for tax purposes due to its sugar-to-flour ratio.
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    For Subway, A Ruling Not So Sweet. Irish Court Says Its Bread Isn't Bread

    Oct 01, 2020
    Yes, Ireland has a legal definition for bread. And the nation's Supreme Court said Subway's bread has too much sugar to satisfy it.
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    Goats and Soda
    A worker disinfects the inside of a bus in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Transit agencies are taking new steps to reduce the risks for riders during the pandemic.
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    Coronavirus FAQ: Is It Safe To Get On The Bus (Or Subway)?

    Aug 28, 2020
    Mass transportation ridership plummeted when COVID-19 struck. Now people are beginning to return. What are the risks they face — and how can they reduce them?
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    National
    Richard McLachlan, originally from New Zealand, waits for the Q train in Brooklyn. He delivers subway talks on the climate emergency, telling his fellow New Yorkers that they are "sleepwalking into a catastrophe."
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    The Gospel Of Climate Change: One Man's Mission To Take The Message To Commuters

    Sep 27, 2019
    A retiree gives unsolicited climate emergency talks on the New York City subway, frequently receiving applause. Now he wants to teach others how to preach their own messages to a crowd.
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    Strange News

    Austrians Turn Up Their Noses At Attempt To Introduce Eau De Commute On Subway

    Aug 06, 2019
    The Vienna transit authority tried out piping four pleasing scents through its trains: green tea, grapefruit, sandalwood and melon. Straphangers said they preferred the air au naturale.
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    The Salt
    More kids are eating at fast-food chains like McDonald's, according to a new study, but parents are buying the healthier side options only about half the time.
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    Apples Or Fries With That? When It Comes To Kids' Meals, Fries Are Hard To Beat

    Sep 27, 2018
    Even though many fast-food chain restaurants are offering healthier sides, a new report says parents choose them only about half the time, and restaurants aren't consistent in how they offer them.
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    World
    This photo, made available by the Italian Culture Ministry, shows a frescoed wall segment, part of the charred ruins of a 3rd century building unearthed during construction work for Rome's Metro C line.
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    Rome's Subway Expansion Reveals Artifacts From The Ancient Past

    Jul 22, 2018
    Construction on a new subway line has uncovered marble busts, frescoes, mosaics, even ancient peach pits, dating back nearly 2,000 years. Archaeologists have also found an ancient military barracks.
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    The Two-Way
    Tests on Subway chicken sandwiches in Canada have concluded that Subway chicken was only half meat — with the other half soy.
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    DNA Tests Find Subway Chicken Only 50 Percent Meat, Canadian News Program Reports

    Mar 01, 2017
    The CBC's investigative consumer show Marketplace ordered the DNA analysis. The sandwich chain unilaterally denies the accusation, with a spokesman calling the claims "absolutely false."
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    Around the Nation
    This mosaic by Vik Muniz is in the 72nd Street station of the Second Avenue subway line in New York City. The line will eventually have four stations, each with walls decorated with ceramic-tile or mosaic pieces by artists Chuck Close, Sarah Sze, Jean Sh
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    New York's Long-Awaited Second Avenue Subway Finally Leaves The Station

    Jan 02, 2017
    For nearly a century, a subway line along Second Avenue on the east side, had eluded New Yorkers, but on New Year's Day three new stations opened to the public.
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    Joe's Big Idea

    A Revolution That Didn't Happen: Personal Rapid Transit

    Oct 03, 2016
    In 1975, the Personal Rapid Transit in Morgantown, W. Va., was expected to usher in a new age of public transit nationally. It didn't. Still, the aging system is getting a $100-million upgrade.
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    Goats and Soda

    Why I Love Riding On The Women-Only Car On Delhi's Metro

    Apr 04, 2016
    Some people say there shouldn't have to be such cars, that they put women on the periphery. I disagree.
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    The Two-Way
    Former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle arrives at a federal courthouse in Indianapolis on Thursday to be sentenced on charges of trading child pornography and paying to have sex with minors.
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    Jared Fogle Sentenced To 15 Years In Prison For Sex With Minors, Child Pornography

    Nov 19, 2015
    A plea deal was reached in August, with the former Subway pitchman admitting to crossing state lines to pay to have sex with minors and receiving child pornography from the head of his charity.
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    The Salt
    Diners wait in line at a Subway sandwich shop on September 15, 2015 in Chicago, Ill. Subway will serve antibiotic-free turkey and chicken by the end of 2016, but it may take nine years for its suppliers of beef and pork to go antibiotic-free as well.
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    Subway Joins The Fast-Food, Antibiotic-Free Meat Club

    Oct 20, 2015
    The chain says it will shift to buying only meat from animals that weren't fed antibiotics. It's set to serve antibiotic-free poultry by the end of next year, but beef and pork may take until 2025.
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    Cities Project
    Engineers test the Flex-Gate, a big sheet of waterproof fabric designed to cover subway entrances and keep water out. Its creation was inspired in part by roll-up metal doors used to cover store entrances.
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    To Flood-Proof Subways, N.Y. Looks At Everything From Plugs To Sheets

    Oct 08, 2015
    New York City's transit authority wants to protect Lower Manhattan subway stations from storm flooding. It's racing to get technology tested and in place in time for the next big one.
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    The Salt
    For 15 years, Jared Fogle has been the famous face of Subway. Here, Fogle (left) visits a Subway shop in Daytona Beach, Fla., with NASCAR driver Carl Edwards in 2012.
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    Can Subway Freshen Up Its Image After Jared?

    Jul 08, 2015
    Jared Fogle's dramatic story of weight loss helped to propel the Subway sandwich chain into a dominant player in fast food. So what happens now that Subway has suspended ties to its brand ambassador?
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    The Two-Way

    Subway Suspends Ties With Pitchman Jared Fogle

    Jul 08, 2015
    Authorities raided Fogle's home, but he has not been arrested or charged. Tuesday's raid puts a spotlight on Fogle's ties to the former head of a foundation he created to fight childhood obesity.
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    Future of Las Vegas Travel Could Include Underground Trains

    May 28, 2015

    LAS VEGAS (AP) — A light-rail train traveling below the Las Vegas Strip is among options transportation leaders are looking at as the destination prepares for millions more tourists in the next 10 to 20 years.

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    Parallels
    Christian Tengblad (right) and his fellow fare dodger are part of the group Planka.nu.
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    Group Urges Swedes To Evade Subway Fares, And Even Insures Against Fines

    Jan 28, 2015
    Fare-dodging in Stockholm's system has become a movement, and the group's members don't try to hide what they're doing — in fact, they advertise it.
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    The Two-Way
    Smoke inhalation victims walk past a firefighter towards a medical aid bus Monday after passengers on the Washington, D.C., subway were injured when smoke filled the L'Enfant Plaza station during the afternoon rush hour.
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    Smoke-Filled Subway Train Leaves 1 Dead, 84 Hospitalized In D.C.

    Jan 13, 2015
    Two passengers remain in critical condition after a train stalled in a tunnel outside a major junction in the system, then flooded with smoke.
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