The allure of tales told in transit is as ancient and enduring as Homer.
THE island of Cyprus, off the coast of Asia Minor, was the Times Square stop on that great mass transit system known as the ancient Mediterranean world.
The island of Cyprus was the Times Square stop on that great mass transit system known as the ancient world, the node where dozens of cultures, European and Asian, crossed paths.
On Tuesday I took a sept-place from Dakar to Saint-Louis; one driver and seven passengers crowded into an ancient Peugeot station wagon for five hours, upper-tier public transit but public transit nonetheless.
An improvised cardboard sunshade, held above the head of an Afghan man who is stuck in a two-day-long line for his transit visa, evokes the masks of ancient Greek tragedy.
Just ask Gene Russianoff, who is staff attorney for the riders' advocacy group known as the Straphangers Campaign and a man who studies transit reports the way a Talmudic scholar pores over ancient commentaries.
Unlike Cadillac Ranch, that rectilinear riot of colors and upended tailfins near Interstate 40, outside of Amarillo, Tex., Carhenge, a similar automotive sculpture inspired by the ancient grouping of stone slabs in Britain, is near no significant tourist or transit route.
Variants of the prominent ancient plastid-targeting "FVAP -type motiFVAP -typein motif1 + 2) were FVSPd in the transit peptide region of alMnSOD1ll sequences (Additional file 2).
We argue that the hydrous Na-rich garnet formed by interactions between mantle peridotite and fluid originating from ancient subducted oceanic crust underneath the Colorado Plateau, and that exsolution of amphibole occurred by decompression during transit to the surface.
Muni, the city transit system, has trains that fall apart and fall off the tracks because of faulty, ancient overhead wires.
