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...ethos of road anarchy manifests itself in the mundane: the unsignaled lane change by the driver next to you, the guy who tailgates you if you go too slow, and the person ahead who brakes abruptly if you go too fast--each transgression accented by a flip of the bird or a blast of the horn. Sixty-four percent of respondents to a recent Coalition for Consumer Health and Safety poll say people are driving less courteously and more dangerously than they were five years...
...people on the road these days: the insane (those who drive faster than you), the moronic (those who drive slower than you) and...you. But this merely confuses the issue. Surely someone is doing all that speeding, tailgating, headlight flashing and abrupt lane changing, not to mention the bird flipping and horn blasting. There's enough in the phenomenon of road rage to keep a faculty-loungeful of social theorists thinking deeply for years--or at least until the grant money runs...
...blew a unique opportunity in your report on the electric car [BUSINESS, Dec. 15] to expose it for what it really is--a dodo: an extinct, flightless bird whose future exists only in the minds of the bureaucrats and wealthy hobbyists. Real people can't afford it. DENNIS KELLY Costa Mesa, Calif...
...glass--in the Miami airport. What's interactive about it? The mosaic reacts to human contact, emitting sounds of the Everglades. Janney's "performance architecture" has also been played in the New York City and Paris subways, where passengers trigger infrared sensors to set off synthesized bells, flutes and bird whistles. His latest work is more passive than interactive: he's designing a Hawaiian home that is also a sundial...
Hong Kong health officials planned to kill all of the territory?s estimated 1.2 million chickens Monday in a massive 24-hour slaughter operation aimed at snuffing out bird flu at its source. Government workers in white surgical masks and gloves fanned out across the city, bagging corpses with a few cupfuls of lime. The bags will be sealed and buried in government-run landfills...