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...some places. Still, the Israeli military activity was manifest in the numerous tank tracks that criss-cross the border road and run through fields of bright green tobacco plants. The border road, a potholed single-lane route even in normal times, is pockmarked from exploding artillery rounds, the asphalt churned by caterpillar tracks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viewing the War from a U.N. Relief Convoy | 8/7/2006 | See Source »

...YORK—The basketball court of Kips Bay Towers is an asphalt oasis in Murray Hill, a chain-linked refuge where a scuffed backboard, once pristine white, hangs as a canvas of missed lay-ups and passed time...

Author: By Pablo S. Torre | Title: Growing Up Beyond Kips Bay | 7/28/2006 | See Source »

...Pancho Villa cherished it as a hideaway in the early 1900s, the West Texas town of Lajitas, a stretch of 25,000 desolate acres on the banks of the Rio Grande near the Mexican border, hardly seems the ideal spot for an idyll. But lay down a strip of asphalt long enough for a Lear to land, then build a rich dude's dude ranch loaded with Old West ambiance--and, voilà, Lajitas, the Ultimate Hideout, is born. The resort stands as a paean to cowboy culture, attracting wealthy city slickers and adventure seekers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Life: One-of-a-Kind Getaways | 7/16/2006 | See Source »

...America's Interstate system - the largest civil engineering project in human history - is actually substantively complete. And now that it is, we can begin to comprehend its scope and impact. After we've spread enough asphalt and concrete and acquired enough right-of-way to cover the entire surface of the state of Delaware, we can begin to comprehend how this sprawling 75 m.p.h. planet of concrete, asphalt, steel and white-line-paint has changed America - both the way we live and how we view our nation. Like some vast, caffeine-propelled external manifestation of our collective nervous system, these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Interstates Turn 50 | 6/26/2006 | See Source »

Barry’s Corner, the neighborhood at the intersection of Western Ave. and N. Harvard St., harbors no such pretensions of grandeur. Anchored at one end by a low-income housing complex and on the other by two gas stations, it is a gritty and crumbling ribbon of asphalt where two major bus routes meet to form a bowtie-shaped intersection hazardous to pedestrians. But in its modesty there is a sense of community that Harvard Square lost long ago. Inexpensive housing rings the crossroads; in the mornings, residents, many of them optimistic immigrants hoping to grab a piece...

Author: By Brian J. Rosenberg | Title: Allston's Ambivalent Metamorphosis | 6/7/2006 | See Source »

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