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People walked in a Tesla Motors Inc. dealership in June in Miami. Tesla's stock is up 301.6% year-to-date through Aug. 16.

People walked in a Tesla Motors Inc. dealership in June in Miami. Tesla's stock is up 301.6% year-to-date through Aug. 16.

The Zillow Inc. app was displayed on a mobile device in New York in July. Zillow is up 222.3% since January.

The Zillow Inc. app was displayed on a mobile device in New York in July. Zillow is up 222.3% since January.

An employee at Supervalu Inc. stood in part of a warehouse at a distribution center in Hopkins, Minn., in January 2012. Supervalu's stock has risen 198.4% from January through Aug. 16.

An employee at Supervalu Inc. stood in part of a warehouse at a distribution center in Hopkins, Minn., in January 2012. Supervalu's stock has risen 198.4% from January through Aug. 16.

A Netflix envelop containing a DVD to be returned by mail was clipped onto a mailbox, in Springfield, Ill., in April. Netflix Inc.'s share price has increased 181.3% since January.

A Netflix envelop containing a DVD to be returned by mail was clipped onto a mailbox, in Springfield, Ill., in April. Netflix Inc.'s share price has increased 181.3% since January.

The Yelp Inc. app logo was displayed on an iPad in Des Plaines, Ill., in February. Yelp's stock has risen 154.5%.

The Yelp Inc. app logo was displayed on an iPad in Des Plaines, Ill., in February. Yelp's stock has risen 154.5%.
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OUT: The top 100 most heavily shorted companies going into 2013 outperformed the rest of the market. See which five companies' stock prices gained the most this year.


IN: New station eases passengers from BART to Amtrak / Covered platform in Richmond is secure and comfortable
2001-07-20 04:00:00 PDT Richmond -- It's now much easier to hop aboard BART and take a train to Sacramento, Seattle, San Diego or even Slidell, La. -- with a quick transfer to an Amtrak train in Richmond.

Yesterday, in a chilly ceremony at the Richmond BART station, officials from BART, Amtrak and Richmond opened a new, safer and easier-to-find platform for connections between the rapid transit system and Amtrak, including 18 daily Capitol Corridor trains between the Bay Area and the Sacramento area.

The new 800-foot platform sits between the middle tracks of the Union Pacific Railroad and has benches, a canopy and a small, partially enclosed waiting area. The $1.9 million station, paid for by the state, is a short distance from BART tracks and is connected to the BART station below by stairs and an elevator.

Politicians and transportation officials praised the new Amtrak connection yesterday, saying it would make it easier for commuters switching from BART to the Capitol Corridor trains as well as for rail travelers bound for more distant locales.

"It's the only place in the Bay Area where you can go from BART to Amtrak," boasted Richmond Mayor Rosemary Corbin as an Amtrak train rumbled past.

Jeff Morales, head of the state Department of Transportation, said the connection is an improvement the state needs badly.

"Making it easier for people to use transit, making transit a more viable option, making it easier for people to get around the Bay Area -- this is the kind of investment we should be making in California," Morales said.

Passengers have been able to hop between Amtrak and BART at Richmond since the transit system opened in 1972. But there were separate platforms for northbound and southbound trains, the waiting areas were dirty and uncomfortable and some riders felt unsafe, because one platform was in an unsecured area next to a BART parking lot.

The new platform has security cameras.

About 200 passengers a day catch Amtrak trains at the station, most of them boarding the state-subsidized Capitol Corridor and San Joaquin trains. Amtrak runs 28 to 30 trains a day through the station. BART carries 5,300 passengers to and from the Richmond station daily.

Although no figures are available on how many passengers transfer between the train systems, officials of BART, Amtrak and Capitol Corridor hope the new connection will attract more riders.
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OUT: Yesterday, in a chilly ceremony at the Richmond BART station, officials from BART, Amtrak and Richmond opened a new, safer and easier-to-find platform for connections between the rapid transit system and Amtrak, including 18 daily Capitol Corridor trains between the Bay Area and the Sacramento area.  Politicians and transportation officials praised the new Amtrak connection yesterday, saying it would make it easier for commuters switching from BART to the Capitol Corridor trains as well as for rail travelers bound for more distant locales.  [...] there were separate platforms for northbound and southbound trains, the waiting areas were dirty and uncomfortable and some riders felt unsafe, because one platform was in an unsecured area next to a BART parking lot.


IN: A Real Woman Who Came Before Tina Fey
In the new movie Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Tina Fey plays a journalist inspired by reporter Kim Barker, whose memoir The Taliban Shuffle is the source for the movie’s story of a woman making her way in the war correspondents’ boy’s-club. The world chronicled by Barker, who now works for the New York Times, and her modern-day colleagues might not have been possible without the work of people like Georgette “Dickey” Chapelle.

Chapelle was a photographer, but she came to the medium relatively late. In the 1930s, she studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on a full scholarship, but had to leave after she let her passion for adventure detract from her schoolwork. She landed a publicity job with TWA and took photography classes with one of the airline’s in-house cameramen, whom she would soon marry. When the outbreak of World War II led to her husband’s going to work as a war photographer, she applied for her own press pass. What began as an attempt to stay close to her husband led to decades of dangerous but vital work, which brought Chapelle to Iwo Jima and Okinawa.

The marriage crumbled in the 1950s, but Chapelle returned to the front—and not, as she would say, as a “girl reporter” but as a true war correspondent. That was an important distinction, and a crucial one for the history of women in the field. Chapelle, though often paid less than her male colleagues, among other indignities, did not turn away from danger. Indeed, on Nov. 4, 1965, Chapelle was killed in South Vietnam, becoming the first American female war correspondent to die in action.

On a marker placed where she fell, the Marines with whom she worked left a simple but poignant message: “She was one of us, and we will miss her.”

The photos above are drawn from a recent book on Chapelle’s life and work, Dickey Chapelle Under Fire by John Garofolo.
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assistant: Dickey Chapelle was the first U.S. female war correspondent to die in action