If your itinerary only allows time for Manhattan, shop the Transit Museum Gallery Annex and Store in Grand Central Terminal.

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The researchers will test the participants' glucose tolerance, the time it takes for digested food to transit through the intestinal tract, and the amount of calories in the patients' stool.

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Despite New York City virtually revolving around its mass transit system, local subway riders haven't had a way to check the next arrival in real-time, even though some smaller cities already take live transit details for granted.

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It's also possible, says Mathur, that the release of methane slows the transit of digested food through the intestinal tract, and that could increase the time for additional calories from digested food to be absorbed and added to the body's tally.

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Public transit in the city was suspended, and authorities expected to have trains and buses running in time for Monday morning's commute.

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In Paris in the Twentieth Century, published for the first time in 1994, Verne described fax machines, gas-powered cars and an elevated mass transit system.

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