Hours earlier the government declared that it would take a railway line run by National Express, a train franchise, into state ownership.

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"Take the A Train" was written by a kid who lived in Pittsburgh named Billy Strayhorn.

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Was it worth the cost of my son's college tuition, which gave him entry to the magazine internship, to have his decision-making abilities honed by making split-second choices about whether to take the A train or the No. 3 train?

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Sometimes the two intersect: In this studio session, they play Billy Strayhorn's "Take the 'A' Train, " but in an arrangement by the contemporary American composer Paul Chihara.

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Take an Underground train a few stops from the borough of Westminster, and life expectancy drops by 12 years.

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