Word: freights
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...between generations over stuff and space is being played out by countless families across the country. Some believe it's merely a nuisance or a practical storage problem, but usually far more is at stake. Whether perceived as old junk or saved treasure, remnants of childhood carry a symbolic freight that transmutes over time as the "children" move into different phases of their lives...
...Nigerians lives below an already very low poverty line in a country with vast stores of natural resources. The average per-capita income flits about the $1,000 mark. The CIA paints a grim picture of the country's infrastructure: Its roads are falling apart because of the heavy freight trucks that pound the pavement. Those trucks, the CIA says, are on the highways because of the collapse of Nigeria's railways after years of neglect. U.S. aid to Nigeria has mushroomed from $7 million two years ago - funneled around the government to humanitarian groups - to $108 million today. While...
...Democrats were no doubt frustrated by the quiescence of the punitive Republican cinder dicks ("cinder dicks" being the Depression-era hoboes' term for the railroad detectives who carried clubs and threw traveling men off the freight trains, which has been, if you think of it, the work of the Gingrich/Falwell brigades). In his acceptance speech, Bush offered scraps to the party's fiercer elements, but mostly they stayed belowdecks, like Ahab's harpooners. They were content to have the conservative Dick Cheney on the ticket, and the knowledge that the next president will be substantially restocking the Supreme Court...
...Well, at least anything that can be molded--which is just about everything we touch these days. Kirila's Virtual Engineered Composites (VEC) process is a factory in a box. The box can be as small as a mop basin or as big (so far) as a 40-ft. freight container. Plopped down in the middle of Azerbaijan or Arizona or Angola, it could start pushing out toilet seats one day and pipeline sections the next...
...CargoLifter project, by contrast, started when logistics expert Carl von Gablenz had an epiphany a few years back in North Carolina, where he was a visiting professor of logistics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was waiting for a lumbering freight train to cross the road in front of him when the tedium caused him to start thinking about ways to float heavy machinery over land. He began hitting up German logistics companies for capital to build something to do just that. "Using conventional means, it takes about 60 days and costs about...