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upon request. MM&A didn’t turnup in a basic record search of Ca-nadian accidents. A spokesman forthe safety board said late Mondaythat a fuller record wasn’t imme-diately available.
In the U.S., MM&A had 23 acci-dents, injuries or other reportablemishaps from 2010 to 2012 and atleast two this year, including thederailment and explosion Saturday
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But the 74-year-old Yale gradu-ate has also faced criticism for abitter battle with one of his boardsand for championing the contro-versial use of remote-controlledtrains in rail yards and one-personcrews. The deadly Quebec derail-ment has put MM&A’s safety re-cord under a microscope.
The Transportation SafetyBoard of Canada, the country’smain investigator of rail accidents,doesn’t publicly post safety re-cords of individual operators, butdoes make that data available
deadly explosion and fire.Rail World is controlled by a
Chicago-area railroad veteran, Ed-ward Burkhardt, who has put to-gether an empire of small railroadsaround the world. Mr. Burkhardt,Rail World’s chairman and chiefexecutive, has spent a lifetime inthe industry, earning the respectof many fellow rail executives.
The operator of the runawaytrain that derailed and exploded inLac-Mégantic, Quebec, this week-end recorded an accident rate farhigher than the U.S. average overthe past 10 years, federal datashow.
A train operated by MontrealMaine & Atlantic Railway Inc., asubsidiary of U.S. train operatorRail World Inc., is at the center ofa Canadian probe after the trainwas left unmanned at a crew reststop and slammed into the smalltown early Saturday, triggering a
In Seoul’s upscale Gangnamneighborhood, made famous bypop star Psy’s viral music video,government curbs on real-estatelending froze a market in whichhome prices had been rising asfast as 25% a year.
In Toronto, housing prices re-versed their rapid rise and fellfor five months after the govern-ment changed rules to effec-tively increase monthly pay-ments on new loans.
But in Tel Aviv, home priceskept right on climbing—up 11%over the past year for a three-bedroom apartment—even afterthe central bank boosted mini-mum down payments and mademortgage lending less attractiveto banks.
Central bankers everywhereelse are watching these experi-ments closely, among them BenBernanke, chairman of the U.S.Federal Reserve. He and his
counterparts around the world,seared by the worst financialcrisis in 75 years, are searchingfor ways to halt borrowingbinges before they morph intobubbles, and to push lenders toshore up their defenses beforethe next crisis arrives.
Lifting interest rates to dis-courage borrowing has longbeen considered a blunt but ef-fective weapon. But that isn’t astep central banks are eager totake when inflation is low or un-employment is high—as they arein many places now.
So some central bankers areexperimenting with targetingonly pockets of financial excess.Because financial bubbles so of-ten involve real estate—and be-cause that sector was at the cen-ter of the last crisis—many arefocusing on ways to controlbooms in housing prices bycurbing mortgage lending.
That’s not the only focus: In-donesia last year outlawed zero-
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CAIRO—Egypt’s Muslim Broth-erhood accused the country’smilitary of massacring dozens ofits supporters during dawntimeprayers in Cairo on Monday, asEgypt’s deadliest clashes in yearsbetween the army and Islamistspushed the country towardarmed conflict.
At least 53 people were killedand more than 400 wounded,Egypt’s official media said, in aclash between the military andsupporters of Mohammed Morsi,who had gathered near the sitewhere Mr. Morsi has been heldunder house arrest since he wasousted as president last week.
Egypt’s military denied the al-legations of a massacre, sayingthat soldiers defended them-selves after they were attackedwith guns and Molotov cocktails,and that 42 protesters, plus asoldier, had been killed.
Monday’s violence demon-strated the peril of the military’sdecision to remove Mr. Morsi, thefirst freely elected president inthe history of the Arab world’slargest nation. Despite its rela-tive stability, Egypt is flirtingwith what several analysts haveuntil now seen as a worst-casescenario—the kind of armed con-flicts that have roiled other coun-tries in the so-called Arab Springof uprisings.
Only last Wednesday, the mili-tary said it was responding topopular will by ousting the coun-try’s Brotherhood-backed presi-dent. Millions of Egyptianscheered. Standing alongsideEgypt’s military chief, leadersrepresenting the country’s Mus-lims, Coptic Christians and secu-lar opposition promised to forman inclusive interim government.
Those same leaders, includingopposition point man MohamedElBaradei and Egypt’s top Sunnisheik, condemned Monday’s kill-ings. Many Egyptians’ hopes forinclusiveness gave way to fearsthat the young leadership wasseeking to rebuild a political sys-tem without the Brotherhood, thenation’s most powerful politicalforce, to possibly deadly result.
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ROSWELL, Ga.—Brad Beteniadidn’t taste much athletic gloryas a youth. At 5-foot-8, basketballstardom seemed out of reach. At140 pounds, he wouldn’t makethe football team.Built more like ajockey than ajock, he was typi-cally one of thelast guys pickedin gym class.
But when thebespectacled 27-year-old event co-ordinator cameacross whirlyball,he knew he had found his chanceto shine. The sport, involvingflinging a plastic Wiffle ball at anelevated target with a jai-alai-likescoop, doesn’t pivot on athletic
prowess. Nor do age, gender orgirth matter. Rather than sprintfrom one end of a basketball-sizecourt to another and back, play-ers move and shoot in bumpercars.
“This is a sport where youdon’t need to bebig or a particu-larly great ath-lete,” says Mr.Betenia. “All youneed is to be ableto drive and drainshots.”
The popularityof whirlyball—think lacrosse onbumper cars—is
accelerating, driven by couch po-tatoes who want to excel on thecourt and weekend warriors.Many wouldn’t survive a fitness
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WASHINGTON—The Obamaadministration has struggled toinfluence events in Egypt eversince the historic Arab Springuprisings transformed the Mid-dle East political landscape.
Now the U.S. must overcomeits limited leverage in an in-creasingly boiling Egypt, espe-
cially now that re-gional alliesappear committed
to heavily funding Egypt’s mili-tary, which last week deposedPresident Mohammed Morsi.
The task is particularly ur-gent now that Egypt’s conflictis emerging as another proxy inthe battle for influence across aregion still struggling throughthe political rebellions that be-gan two years ago. The U.S.wants to use its influence inCairo to persuade the Egyptian
military to construct a broadpolitical system that includesMr. Morsi’s Muslim Brother-hood movement—in otherwords, one that is both stableand democratic, officials say.
The administration of Presi-dent Barack Obama, however,faces a difficult task, havingalienated both sides—the Isla-mists and their opponents—inthe years since the Arab Springouster of strongman HosniMubarak in 2011. Islamist poli-ticians have accused the U.S. ofcomplicity in Mr. Morsi’souster, while his opponents saythe U.S. didn’t speak out force-fully enough against his recentpower grabs.
U.S. officials on Mondayagain said that $1.55 billion inU.S. military and economic as-sistance to Cairo could be injeopardy if Egypt’s generalsdon’t move quickly to restorecivilian rule. Still, the Obamaadministration avoided weigh-ing in on whether the ouster ofMr. Morsi was a coup. Such adesignation, under U.S. federallaw, would force the White
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