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...tend to be more rooted. Cairo, Ill., was a typical stop. The two-block heart of Main Street there looks like an abandoned movie set. The old brick buildings are crumbling. Only a beauty shop and a soup kitchen show any life. Once a stop on the Underground Railway for slaves (Mark Twain's Jim was hoping to head north from there), it was ripped by racial protests in the 1960s and '70s and has never fully recovered. But Main Street was recently repaved with bricks and fake trolley tracks at a cost of $1.5 million (all from federal...
...pristine nature of the formations was unexpected, their unlikely location was even more so. Planetologists have long assumed that if underground water was going to bubble up on Mars, it would have to be somewhere in the comparatively balmy equatorial zones, where temperatures at high noon in midsummer may approach a shirtsleeves 68[degrees]F. Almost all the new channels, however, were spotted at the planet's relative extremes--north of 30[degrees] north latitude and south of 30[degrees] south--and all were carved on the cold, shaded sides of slopes...
...want to look down because the short bald man in front of you would surely feel your glance reflect off of his cue-ball head. You can't look out the window because, well, you're underground most of the time, and when you aren't, you can only look down toward the grass because you are taller than the windows. So, instead, you look up and down the train, above the heads of the average Joes and Janes. Sometimes, you close your eyes because there just is nowhere else to look. And you have to be careful what...
...Honesty will never be driven completely underground by the tactics of the media...
...said, however, that the use of an underground parking garage, as well as high usage by students, would decrease the traffic impact...