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...lost six of its next eight games, then had to win three of its last four to barely make the play-offs. There was plenty of finger pointing all around--selfish players, ill-prepared assistant coaches, the Fates--but the blame fell to Shula. Never mind the Don Shula Expressway, the Don Shula Steak House, Don Shula's Hotel and Golf Club. In three separate polls in the Miami Herald, the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel and the Palm Beach Post, 10,000 of a combined 13,000 fans voted in favor of Shula's dismissal...
...Boston Globe, a local story was given so much play that one might have thought it described a modern-day miracle. In it, two Globe reporters described their experiences riding with passengers in the newly-opened "High Occupancy Vehicle" (that's HOV to you) lane on the Southeast Expressway. One reporter stayed with the "rabbit," the car in the fast lane, while another rode shotgun with the "turtle," the car on the regular highway. Contrary to the fable, needless to say, the rabbit won. Cars carrying three or more passengers can ride in the adjustable lane, which changes direction depending...
Photographs of Kobe lead one to suspect that steel rebar and concrete reinforcements are missing from the expressway and other public projects. The Japanese should turn their formidable energy to a great national purpose: survival of a superquake. The government must oversee the inspection and retrofit of all structures in the Tokyo-Yokohama metroplex. Time is short...
...estimated 75 people, injuring hundreds and trapping hundreds more in collapsed buildings. The quake, which measured 7.2 on the Richter scale and was followed by at least 17 aftershocks, hardest in the major port city of Kobe, where fires burned out of control, trains derailed and a major elevated expressway toppled, spilling about 50 vehicles onto the street below. The shaking, which began at 3:46 p.m. EST (5:46 a.m. in Japan) and lasted about 20 seconds, was also felt strongly 22 miles away in Osaka, Japan's second-largest city. Nearly 200 people were believed buried in rubble...
There's a bumper sticker you see occasionally when you're driving down the Long Island Expressway, and it captures perfectly the sentiment of many a New York hockey...