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...must be a reality for the Olympics." City officials say they haven't decided on specific plans for reducing car traffic during the Games, but there is a precedent for the idea. During a summit with African leaders last fall a half million official vehicles were taken off the road for nearly a week...
...entered Mahmand, my bulky taxi driver Ilyas Khan abruptly stopped his car at a gas station to make sure all his cassettes were tucked away in a secret compartment beneath the dashboard. "They search the cars for un-Islamic things," he explains. "They would suddenly appear on the road. They are young angry boys. They also enjoy the support of some locals...
...James Oberstar of Minnesota - his successor as chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee - bragged about bagging 57 "high-priority projects" for his district in the bill, including a visitor center at Mesabi Station, a bridge for snowmobiles in Onamia and a new $3 million highway between County Road 565 in Hoyt Lakes and the intersection of Highways 21 and 70 in Babbitt. You know the spot...
...When ushered in to meet the old king of Mustang in his castle of 108 mud rooms, I asked him in my best Nepali how he thought the road would change the area. He replied it would be good economically, but detrimental culturally and environmentally; and his eyes grew melancholy...
...cannot guess how the road will transform the Loba’s lives in infinite positive and negative ways. I am frightened that the road may destroy what makes the area incomparable to any other. But I am selfishly happy to have seen the windswept canyons, the brilliant red Buddhist temples, the fields of impossible green in the midst of barren browns, and the beautiful, friendly faces of the Loba before a road transforms them into a mere glimpse captured through the window of a car along a highway...