Word: expressways
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...just come back from Cambodia with a bunch of dried toads," declares artist Jerry Swaffield, pretty much by way of introduction. Thirty minutes later, he's prowling a patch of Bangkok wasteland, cars howling past on the expressway above, a stylishly ruffled figure picking through rubbish, which?in the opinion of gawking slum dwellers nearby?has already been stripped clean of anything valuable. "Very rich pickings," muses Swaffield, before plunking himself down in a discarded armchair that is hemorrhaging orange and yellow foam. "Awesome," he pronounces...
...years, pet-supply executive Andrew King spent about a third of his workweek trapped on the Long Island Expressway, famed for its snail-paced traffic. He felt he had no choice. As president of Kings Cages, a birdcage manufacturer based in Farmingdale, N.Y., about 40 miles east of Manhattan, King has to visit customers scattered all around New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. But one day last spring, as he was spending all morning driving to Oxford, Conn., it suddenly occurred to him that if he had flown from a municipal airport near his business, he would have reached...
...tourist literature "the international city of peace," denies Korean conscripts killed in the A-bomb blast a monument in Peace Memorial Park because its foreign presence would sully the sanctum's purity. "Internationalization," as oft-quoted a mantra here as anywhere, means little on street level beyond flag-bunting, expressway signs in English and more Starbucks franchises...
...Osaka home in July after her father scolded her for staying out late the previous night. Just after 10 p.m., though, Kamiie called her mother from her cell phone to say she was heading home. Twenty minutes later, she was pushed handcuffed out of a car on a major expressway 40 km away. Kamiie died of blood loss shortly afterward. In September, a 34-year-old middle-school teacher was arrested for her murder. Police said he had found the girl through a cell-phone dating club and had arranged to meet for sex. Kamiie...
...live in the suburbs of New York or Boston, traveling into the city is a regular, if not daily, occurrence. This is not the case with Detroit. There is a widening rift between the suburbs and the city due to expressway development, urban and suburban sprawl and age-old racial tensions. With a new freeway system that drew people out of the city and made commuting from the suburbs easier, the Eisenhower administration’s new home deals, the city’s growing African American population and the ’67 riots, many white people moved...