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...three cameras. The license plate details were then sent to a central computer system, which checked that the driver had paid his €8. For now, the list of exemptions is short - including the disabled, emergency- service vehicles and taxis. Everybody else has until midnight to pay - by phone, text-messaging, online or by visiting one of thousands of convenience stores - although the charge doubles after 10 p.m. Those who don't pay will be mailed a €120 fine. More than three outstanding penalties, and a car can be clamped or towed away. Livingstone hopes to slash...
...sacred Buddhist sutras constitute a large portion of the exhibit’s works. Many of the sutra chapters include illustrations that accompany the calligraphic text. Beautifully detailed woodblock prints, both inked and touched up with gold pigment, make up the magnificent pages of the sutras. The copying of such texts was vital to the transmission of Buddhist beliefs and practices. Furthermore, it was considered a meritorious act that brought good fortune to both the patron who commissioned the work and the artist himself...
...translation itself also proved to be a huge undertaking. After reading the many versions of translations published during Longfellow’s life, Pearl chose the 1867 edition since it was the same text of the Inferno that the first Americans reading Dante would have seen. A large portion of the companion book is Longfellow’s notes, which serve as crucial guideposts throughout the text...
...Fodor’s survey found that only 23 percent of travelers read the Gideons Bible in hotel rooms. It is time to supplement the Bible with another canonical text: the United States Constitution. Americans should form a non-profit organization based on the Gideons model to raise money and distribute Constitutions in hotel rooms across the country. The health of American democracy will certainly benefit, even if only a fraction of travelers pick it up. And non-Christians will no longer have to settle for just a telephone book and a TV Guide...
...ability to convey it--that seemed to give special comfort to the bereaved. When Challenger exploded as the country watched, national exhilaration was instantly plunged into despair for those young lives pinched out in the first seconds of their great adventure. Reagan read a wonderful text by speechwriter Peggy Noonan and lifted it into immortality: "The Challenger crew was pulling us into the future, and we'll continue to follow them..." He may have understood better than most of us that great achievement always takes a toll among those with the courage to make the journey...