Word: blacktopping
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...divided highway lances through the beauties of a Pennsylvania dawn, morning frost glinting across the hills below. It's hard to enjoy the natural wonders, though, when ALVINN is behind the wheel, doing 88 km/h in the fast lane. First he lurches right, crossing both lanes of the blacktop and alarming bleary-eyed commuters trying to share the road. Then he careens to the left, skidding onto the gravel shoulder and nearly into a ditch. Finally Todd Jochem, 27, a graduate student at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University, wrests the wheel of the four-wheel-drive Humvee from ALVINN while...
...council's corruption games continue, Harvard will have, in effect, no student government. But it will still have quite a few students who are interested in being representatives. Too bad a few troublemakers are crowding everyone else off the blacktop...
...rattling down the joint-jangling Southwest Freeway in the shadow of the Washington Monument. On this long-neglected strip of pavement, a washboard ripple effect experts call rutting jiggles the front wheels into a dervish dance. Farther along in a newly rebuilt section, potholes already lurk, like so many blacktop booby traps...
Countless odes have been sung to Jordan's uncanny, unearthly, preternatural ability to defy gravity. Rightly so, for airborne wizardry is what makes Jordan the apotheosis of the playground player, the supreme performer who unites hard-court fundamentals with the improvisational creativity of the blacktop. Pardon the pretentiousness, but Jordan's artistry fuses the classic and the romantic...
Then, as some protesters loudly counted down and others made the sound of incoming shells, the activists plunged to the blacktop, writhing in an efort to simulate the agony of exposure to chemical and nerve agents...