Word: chicago
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...communities along U.S. 12 to decide exactly that: whether to pass a resolution to make the old roadway the country's first dedicated green corridor. U.S. 12 began as a patchwork of ancient Native American trails and became Michigan's first paved road, stretching 212 miles from Detroit to Chicago and connecting 25 quaint towns, each about 12 miles (or a day's lazy horse ride) apart. (See pictures of the world's most polluted places...
...used to teach book arts in Chicago, and you actually make books. As someone, then, who is so involved with the physical construction of books, are you concerned that one day everything will be digital? I'm concerned about the effect of the digital on the world of the printed book. I think there are a lot of things that digital books could do more effectively. I can imagine, for example, that with textbooks and telephone books and all of those resources, it would be lovely for them to be searchable the way we're used to searching the Internet...
...which airports you especially want to avoid: "There are six metropolitan areas that experienced worse-than-average delays for both arrivals and departures: New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Miami, Atlanta and San Francisco. And since all six metropolitan areas are domestic and international hubs, their poor on-time performance affects a large number of travelers ... The New York metropolitan area stands in its own category when it comes to poor on-time performance. New York generated both the worst arrival delay percentages (30.0%) and one of the worst departure delay percentages (21.7%). New York also ranked as the worst metropolitan area...
...Conservatives in America," Halperin continues, "many of whom recently expressed joy that Obama failed on the international stage in his hands-on bid to win the Olympic Games for Chicago, will denounce Obama's award as a farce. Even some neutral critics will agree that the honor seems, at a minimum, premature." (See pictures of Obama's presidential campaign behind the scenes...