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...Their goal was to expand the opportunities for new green space...in the large area of asphalt," Schlesinger wrote...
...American women are the healthiest, most coddled, most protected women on the planet," Zubaty said. "They are not expected to fight in wars, mine coal, pour asphalt, or lay bricks. Women receive welfare benefits that are withheld from men. Women are an exalted majority, not a victimized minority...
...Indeed, after the initial and rather stealthy shutdown of Pennsylvania Avenue, which carried 26,000 vehicles a day, there was a kind of jubilation over the serenity and pedestrian access to the broad avenue between Lafayette Park and the White House. Hundreds of strollers, Rollerbladers and bicyclists invaded the asphalt with happy shouts...
...doesn't shine on the desert towns where California, Arizona and Nevada converge. It glares, searing the asphalt highways lined with truck stops and trailer parks until the air shimmers with heat. In the neon nights, the listless and the luckless -- dropouts, boozers, gamblers and speed freaks -- take refuge in cheap motels. No one knows how many drifters travel the roads, how many alienated Americans hole up in motel rooms, in anger or despair. No one can even say if there are more of the rootless in this desolate corner of America than elsewhere. Theirs is an invisible subculture...
...city would also change some landscaping andimprove sign postings in the Commons, Epsteinsaid. The new bicycle paths would be paved with"materials that will reinforce slow travel," notthe asphalt commonly used, she added...