One reason the PATH has been so much slower to recover than the New York City subway is the relatively greater expanse of track area that was subjected to coastal flooding in the storm, said Stephen Kingsberry, the acting director of the PATH, on a recent visit to Exchange Place in Jersey City.

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Like the bill that has been kicked around in Congress for more than a decade, and which met its demise in December 2010 when five Senate Democrats effectively killed it by voting against cloture on the debate, the Republican plan would give undocumented students a path to legal status in exchange for going to college or joining the military.

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But this week the path forward may have been found by one of the most unlikely and ridiculous gold mining firms ever to trade on an exchange.

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