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...ancient kingdom has remained mostly isolated from the modern world: The Nepali government has allowed trekking there only since 1991 and allows just 1000 foreigners to enter each year. The road, the trucks, the commerce between the giant nations of China and India will cause a sea change in Upper Mustang...
...this could soon change. A road is slowly creeping through the heart of Upper Mustang. It connects Lo Monthang to Tibet, carrying cheap Lhasa beer and change to the walled city. Workers are painstakingly hacking out the northward road from the rock along the Kali Gandaki River as I write. Within decades, maybe far sooner, the old trade route from Tibet to India will be revived in far different form, Tata trucks rumbling over the ancient paths on which yaks once marched...
...usual, pointed challenges arose. One questioner noted that the construction boom depended largely on cheap labor from the Indian subcontinent, labor that will grow more expensive as these workers are integrated into society down the road. Another questioner expressed skepticism about occupancy rates. This kind of push and pull is what makes markets, of course. The difference is that for hedge funds, trades gone wrong can be disastrous...
...After Pasadena, I took a road trip to see another of my old pals, this one at the United States Military Academy. Two friends and I packed up a barbecue and drove to West Point, where our cadet was in the midst of summer field training. It wasn’t important that none of us knew how to grill—or, rather, it didn’t occur...
...cracks between supports, freeze and expand and cause a huge amount of damage." Beyond that, says Miller, "concrete is a very forgiving material, and so it can stand up to a lot of cracking and wear. Steel on the other hand, cannot." In a place like Minnesota, where road crews dump corrosive ice melter on roadways by the ton in winter, the problem is even worse...