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...City to Anchorage, a matter of some 4,500 miles. But you can't drive from Juneau, the capital, to Anchorage. The road from Juneau goes 40 miles and stops. Take a plane. Take a ferry; in Alaska, the ferries are part of the highway system. Taylor Highway, a gravel track passable in summer, heads north from the Alaska Highway through Chicken (so named, according to local lore, because its founders could not spell ptarmigan) and eventually reaches Eagle, where it stops. The most self-indulgent and leisurely way to reach Alaska is to head for Seattle or Vancouver, board...
...local issues. (Germany's postwar constitution banned national referendums.) Garish billboards urging Berliners to SAVE TEMPELHOF! have sprouted alongside beds of daffodils and magnolia trees across the German capital. Posters that call for shuttering the "VIP airport" show children frolicking on the vacated fields. "Hands off Tempelhof!" croons gravel-voiced country singer Gunter Gabriel in a music video featuring air stewardesses in 1960s-vintage miniskirts. "Berlin is an anarchic city and everybody wants to join in the debate," says Wolfgang Kaschuba, a professor of urban studies at Berlin's Humboldt University...
...some because they know Wu-Tang’s music, others because they know they’re supposed to know Wu-Tang’s music. “Yeah, Wu-Tan Clan! I love those guys. Didn’t they have that song about a gravel quarry? And the Killing Bees! How could I forget. I always listen to them. OMG, I am so excited about this concert.” Currently listening to: “C.R.E.A.M.,” by the Wu-Tang Clan (on YouTube). Will soon be listening to: Other Wu-Tang songs...
...have to come. People are getting fed up with the same old Hilary and Obama stuff. People are getting tired of that. So the media is going to want to make things a little interesting. They may reach down and say well what’s this Gravel all about? Because they can’t make fun of me. My record of accomplishments is too significant. My record of accomplishments dwarfs anything that Hilary or Obama would ever even think of doing. So they’ve got to give me my due, and as my due is given...
...Fifteen Minutes (FM): What’s changed in politics in general since you left office 30 years ago? Mike Gravel (MG): We’re coming off an area of conservatism, of selfishness, of individualism, and maybe we’re moving towards a more cooperative approach in society. I hope that’s the case, because certainly when you look at the environmental problem we face, it’s very serious. In fact unless we make some fundamental changes we’re going to cook ourselves off the planet in the next hundred years...