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...want to read a truly classic crime novel, buy W. R. Burnett's Asphalt Jungle or Jim Thompson's The Killer Inside Me. This book is worth the effort only if you have a few hours to waste on a quick light book and don't care too much about being surprised or challenged...
...smile makes a strong case in favor of whatever it is that accounts for her contentment. When people spread into the landscape, who is to draw the limits? Sternfeld's picture may not answer the question, but he poses it in terms sympathetic to democratic sprawl. The asphalt road that rises diagonally behind the woman could be a heraldic line for the house of tomorrow...
Congress responded by raising the gasoline tax by 5 cents per gal., with 1 cent earmarked for mass transit. Given the magnitude of the problem, it seemed the equivalent of pouring asphalt into a few potholes. But by almost every statistical measure, the quality of the nation's highways has improved somewhat. That is particularly true of the Interstate system, which carries 20% of the nation's traffic on only 1% of its road mileage. According to Federal Highway Administration figures, while only 30% of the pavement on urban Interstates was in good or very good condition in 1982, that...
After four gritty years working on the road for the Santa Clara County transportation agency -- patching holes, shoveling asphalt, opening culverts -- Diane Joyce applied in 1980 for a less strenuous desk job as a road dispatcher. At the time not one of the California agency's 238 skilled positions was held by a woman. Joyce knew, however, that two years earlier the county had enacted a voluntary affirmative-action policy designed to correct that imbalance...
...Jerry performed at The Catch for the opening week only and will now return to their families to get more material for their acts. Paul Kozlowski, however, will return to the scene every Sunday night to imitate the sound of a cat falling from a helicopter and landing on asphalt...