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...beneficiary of their professionalism. Depending on whom you talk to, Australia's Highway 1 is the world's longest road, its longest continuous highway, or the longest without crossing a national border. Whatever the qualification, there's no doubt it's long. Some 15,000 km of multi-lane freeway, dual carriageway, two-lane bitumen and corrugated dirt, it circles the Australian mainland, never far from the coast, and bisects Tasmania...
Depending on whom you talk to, Australia's Highway 1 is the world's longest road, its longest continuous highway, or the longest without crossing a national border. Whatever the qualification, there's no doubt it's long. Some 15,000 km of multi-lane freeway, dual carriageway, two-lane bitumen and corrugated dirt, it circles the Australian mainland, never far from the coast, and bisects Tasmania...
...joint venture of America Online and the Telepictures Productions division of Warner Bros. (both companies are divisions of Time Warner, also the parent of TIME). Despite those high-powered connections, the website operates out of a nondescript warehouse building in an industrial section of Glendale, Calif., several freeway exits away from the swanky Warner Bros lot. Still, it's a fitting setting for the gritty brand of journalism practiced by the site that bills itself as an on-demand entertainment news network. Its 25 staffers are led by managing editor Harvey Levin, an Emmy-award-winning former legal affairs...
...that really the way most Americans feel about these roads? Many of us, after all, use them more for daily commutes rather than for recreational trips. And let's be honest -for the millions of metro commuters who endure daily knotted freeway traffic-jams, any portrayal of the Interstates as the latest incarnation of America's classic Open Road rings false. For them -perfectly happy, thank you, to wait to get back on the road again - these highways feel about as romantic as a digital clock...
...Moreover, freeway fracases over everything from neighborhood preservation to roadside billboards echo long-standing national conversations that reach back to our republic's dawn. Long before Ike's fountain pen in 1956 inscribed these red-roads into our Rand-McNally pages, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton sparred over how to balance democracy, freedom and commerce in American lives. Put another way, even as history's odometer this season rolls up the Interstates' 50th anniversary, these roads still take us on a multi-lane tour of our murkiest feelings about home and travel, the near and the distant, the here...