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...host of Southern drawls agreed. “My goodness gracious, the traffic was as thick as hot asphalt under the Georgia...
Anyone who has ever felt the cool tug of uncut grass or the dewy kiss of morning earth between their toes may appreciate what Teddy means. Then again, anyone who has ever been forced into an improvised cha-cha routine by the scorching lash of steaming asphalt on their naked feet...
...deal A metallic version of the low-riding '70s Big Wheel tricycle, it still has those plastic back wheels for better skidding on concrete and asphalt...
...often both. Many people who love their god, their children and their job nevertheless drive as though there is no tomorrow, foot down, mobile phone to hand, rude and reckless kings and queens of the road. But for 40,000 E.U. citizens each year, the road ends. Peeled from asphalt, picked in pieces from twisted steel and plastic, body-bagged to a mortuary. Others learn that for the rest of their lives the only tires they'll steer are those of a wheelchair...
...more, some of them may not even be legal. Over the past three months, a chemical-weapons watchdog organization called the Sunshine Project has obtained evidence that the U.S. is considering some projects that appear to take us beyond the bounds of good sense: bioengineered bacteria designed to eat asphalt, fuel and body armor, or faster-acting, weaponized forms of antidepressants, opiates and so-called "club drugs" that could be rapidly administered to unruly crowds. Such research is illegal under international law and could open up terrifying scenarios for abuse. "This is patently quite dangerous and irresponsible," says human-rights...