Word: asphalt
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...smooth and (when used to make flesh) slightly rubbery pigment. After moving to San Francisco in the early '70s, he took his eye outside and did cityscapes--those strange, plunging perspectives of the hills and highways of the city, translated into gravity-defying slices, with cars clinging to the asphalt like flies to a wall, as in Apartment Hill...
Burden, 58, puts bloated thoroughfares on what he calls a "road diet." In cities as large as Las Vegas, Toronto and Seattle and hamlets as small as Sammamish, Wash., he has trimmed lanes and filled the space with bike routes or a grassy buffer between the asphalt and the sidewalk to ease walkers' stress. Of course, motorists tend to react to Burden as they might to a jackknifed manure spreader directly in their path. "They say ,'We already have a traffic problem,'" says Burden, "'and now you want to take lanes away...
...night of my last exam here at the College I celebrated with a late-night run by the Charles—several laps around the asphalt pathways I think of as the racetrack. I spent most of the time absorbed in my own thoughts of senior week, my new job, spending the summer with my family and all those other details that fly through your mind as you pound the pavement. As I rounded the bend near the JFK Park to head home, I looked up. The river glittered in the light of the full moon, cooing and rippling ever...
...sure, there are play structures that are unsafe. Many built before the 1970s were little more than steel towers over bare asphalt. "A lot of the playgrounds we grew up on were really kind of instruments of torture," says Kathryn Dresslar, a legislative aide who helped bring about new California regulations. In 1999, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, a quarter of a million American kids went from playgrounds to emergency rooms...
Considering the circumstances, their behavior is not surprising. These days, many professional players are scouted when they are just kids imitating Jordan on asphalt courts, coddled by agents and tempting offers when they are still just pimple-faced teens, and treated like hot commodities by the time they graduate high school. It's enough to give any kid a big head. While the drug policy has its flaws, the prospect of no policy seems like a recipe for disaster...