Word: traffic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cambridge Street was closed off to all westbound traffic for more than an hour. Eastbound traffic was diverted south onto Quincy Street...
...walked until I could walk no more. I contemplated the best and safest way to conquer the crossing. I looked down the highway waiting for my opportunity. The flow of traffic lulled, and I sprinted across the three lanes to the highway's dividing island. I checked again, and I ran across the three remaining lanes. I reached the other side of the strip just as a BMW jetted by and honked at me in annoyance...
...Anthony's probably the only one who puts himself into the traffic," joked Amy S. Smith, one of his volunteers...
...heads prevail. Atlanta, which is to boosterism what Las Vegas is to ATM machines, has been playing catch-up ball for years. It's just the sort of place that would boast about having the busiest airport, which seems a bit like boasting about having the world's largest traffic jam. Asian cities like Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong and Shanghai have become Atlanta. Eager to call attention to their commercial muscle, they all have tallest-building projects. They're like a family that moves into a fancy neighborhood for the first time and feels the need to display...
...often does around this time, Bob Martin, 47, is standing on his head. Martin has just finished another frenzied day as a patent attorney at Hewlett-Packard's Palo Alto, Calif., headquarters, but instead of plunging into rush-hour traffic, he has descended one flight of stairs to the company's yoga studio. Soft music flutes through the room as half a dozen practitioners, high heels and neckties stowed in nearby lockers, bend and breathe to their instructor's directions. "It's wonderful," Martin says, rolling back to his feet. "I come down here and I let everything that...