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The Amherst Student

Volume 152 • Issue 1

The Amherst Student

The Newspaper of Amherst College Since 1868

Sunday, January 29, 2023

Charlie Samuelson

Assistant Arts Editor

Number of Articles: 1

First Article: November 5, 2003

Latest Article: November 5, 2003

The Fung-Wah Fun

By Charlie Samuelson

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November 5, 2003

The Fung-Wah bus company runs hourly buses between Boston and New York’s Chinatown, for a ridiculously low fare of $10. As proud students of economics 11, we deduced that in this instance the marginal benefit clearly exceeded the marginal cost. Just trying to get on the bus was an adventure. We had tickets for the 12:30 p.m. bus; yet, at 12:35, we were standing with roughly 200 people, nearly half of whom were fluently speaking Chinese, waiting at a random corner in New York’s Chinatown. To our

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