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...construction, because the current zoning agreement between the town and university sets a cap on the number of square feet that Carolina can build. The most vocal opponents to Carolina’s expansion are residents of neighborhoods adjacent to the campus, which would lose the undeveloped buffer that now separates them from the school. Other residents merely object on the basis of the impact the plans would have on the town’s traffic patterns or environment. They don’t want the development to destroy the small-town nature of Chapel Hill or bring the same...
...well and good, but no Coke? Soft drink bosses lobbied the Clinton Administration for gum arabic to be exempted. Not surprisingly, they won. Just in case there's a change in that exemption or the supply they depend on dries up, big manufacturers have built up a five-year buffer stock. "Pepsi-Cola is not a joke," says Magid Gadir, general manager of the Khartoum Gum Arabic Processing Co., one of the biggest exporters in the country. "If we stop selling, they have enough to last and they will try seriously for alternatives...
Burden, 58, puts bloated thoroughfares on what he calls a "road diet." In cities as large as Las Vegas, Toronto and Seattle and hamlets as small as Sammamish, Wash., he has trimmed lanes and filled the space with bike routes or a grassy buffer between the asphalt and the sidewalk to ease walkers' stress. Of course, motorists tend to react to Burden as they might to a jackknifed manure spreader directly in their path. "They say ,'We already have a traffic problem,'" says Burden, "'and now you want to take lanes away...
Taken as a whole, such global events underscore the increasingly important presence of the United States within the global community. But, as Nov. 7 draws near, they also highlight a host of challenges that will confront our next president. Without Congress as a buffer, the president must handle global issues at the most intimate of levels. Such interaction requires a brand of leadership that can both bridge nation-states and acquiesce heads-of-state...
While passengers feel safe from each other in a car, they also feel safe from the rest of the world. It acts as a buffer-zone from the daily chaos that is life. Cars—at least higher-end cars—are relatively noise-free because of their elaborately comfortable seating and surround sound systems, creating a miniature world detached from the real world. (For the record, my ’90 Toyota Tercel offers neither comfortable seating nor a noise-free environment, and yet the buffer-zone is still—thank goodness—maintained...