Word: autobahn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...speeding to yet another appointment--maybe a class or a meeting or a rehearsal. Who knows? It was something I was late for. I was weaving in and out of pedestrians and passers-by--nothing hazardous or anything, just trying to get through without being forced onto the autobahn that is Mass. Ave., while avoiding the possibility of getting flattened by a tour bus full of inquisitive grandmothers from Coral Gables...
...will the growth of the Internet help. The narrow bandwidth of standard telephone lines serves as a democratizing bottleneck, rendering all processors, regardless of speed, equally slow. Why buy a souped-up superbox loaded with Pentium III power if the on-ramps to the information autobahn are perpetually jammed...
...fossil hunters studying evolution, Java has always been a good place to dig. Its equatorial climate makes it home to countless species, and periodic land bridges placed it in the middle of the migratory autobahn between Asia and Australia, making it the perfect spot to study how animals spread. Since the 1890s, numerous fossils of Homo erectus have been found on the island, but scientists were particularly intrigued by more than a dozen partial skulls found near the villages of Ngandong and Sambungmacan in the 1930s and 1970s. The skulls had unusually large braincases, and so were estimated...
...came to me while I was driving home. Highway 280 is the Bay Area's version of the Autobahn. In the stretch between San Jose and South San Francisco, the eight-lane interstate cuts through the middle of nowhere, and thus has onramps only every couple of miles. So with low traffic density, few trucks, and lotsa lanes, cars have usually had free reins with speeding...
...also under the impression that the Autobahn curves every 50 miles or so. Again, this is not true for many Western roads. This makes high speeds a lot safer than they sound at first. Yes, people are driving 80 mph. But they are driving 80 mph on roads that are straight and empty. A speed limit of 65 is outrageously slow under these conditions...