To date, only Stadler has brought low-floor trains to Britain, while the major rolling stock makers - Bombardier, Alstom, Siemens and Hitachi - seem wedded to trains with high floors that force passengers in wheelchairs to ask for help to board and alight trains.

B. Wooster: Of all the places on this great planet of ours, West Neck, Long Island, has chosen to be the most unexciting. The last time anything remotely interesting happened here was in 1842, when a tree fell over. They still talk about it in the village.

My leg aches with each step I take toward the elevator; the army of Alice-in-Wonderlands that once travailed the hallways of the hospital are now clad in summer-yellow scrubs.

The break-in became the crime of the century, at least in the newspapers.