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Riding in style. (Short Stuff).


May I have your attention, please! Is riding a mass-transit bus cramping cramping

see cramp.
 your style? Hartford, Conn., officials have found a way to make public transportation cool. With Art-on-the-Go, more than a dozen African-American teens who participate in the Urban League's after-school program at Weaver High School get to create original artwork and write copy for those big advertising bill-boards that appear on the sides of Connecticut Transit Connecticut Transit (CT Transit) is a bus system serving much of the U.S. state of Connecticut and is a division of that state's Department of Transportation[1].  city buses. The designs will promote the Hartford-based Amistad Foundation, which collects art and artifacts artifacts

see specimen artifacts.
 that document African-American history. In March, two final designs will be chosen. And starting in May, buses in Hartford will get a total makeover! Now,. if only they could make the cheese wagon funky funky - Said of something that functions, but in a slightly strange, klugey way. It does the job and would be difficult to change, so its obvious non-optimality is left alone. Often used to describe interfaces. .
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Publication:Girls' Life
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Date:Feb 1, 2003
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