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Drafted by Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner, the blueprint for repairing America's crumbling roads and easing airport congestion is almost silent on how to pay for what it recommends. Where it is specific, the plan proposes new or additional "user fees" and surcharges for air travelers and new authority for states to turn federally financed highways into toll roads. Translation: Bush wants to improve Americans' mobility, but he would prefer that local politicians raise the funds needed to break the transportation gridlock...
...short drive from the airport to the Tadzhikistan Hotel that we realize something ugly is happening. Do we know about the big demonstration, the Tadzhik driver asks? "The Tadzhiks have demanded that the 2,500 Armenians leave," he says, "and gave them 48 hours to get out." What Armenians? "The Armenians recently came here as refugees from Baku," he continues, as good- naturedly as though referring to the light snow that is falling. "The government gave them apartments that we have been waiting for for eight years or more. So the Tadzhiks attacked the central-committee building. There...
With the brand-new Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport just 15 minutes from the beach, Sarasota is one of the most accessible vacation spots, not to mention one of the most laid-back...
...willing to rent a car, a cheaper stay in Sarasota would be along the strip which connects the airport to the city. It may not be the most classy, but it's cheap and still a five-minute drive to the beach...
...practice, hardly new, can be fatal if a container ruptures. The autopsy on a passenger from Venezuela who died en route to Kennedy Airport in 1970 revealed 120 packets of cocaine in his intestines. He apparently made the mistake of using a permeable natural-skin condom, rather than a latex one, to hold the drug, which seeped into his stomach. Since the intestines are 27 ft. long, they can contain large quantities of contraband...