Word: highway
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OSHA inspectors have turned up in the most unlikely places with the most implausible demands. Michael Armstrong, manager of In-Line Inc., a North Carolina construction firm, recalls the investigator who insisted that he provide a portable toilet for his crew while they were digging a tunnel under a highway. In vain did Armstrong argue that his men never complained about using the bathroom at a filling station 50 yards away. OSHA was even determined to give cowboys a new kind of home on the range, complete with a portable flush toilet within five minutes walking distance. Ranch hands...
...classic confrontation. Highway builders said the new roadway was absolutely essential to the state's development. Environmentalists countered that it would wreck one of New England's scenic landmarks. For 20 years the argument raged: Should Interstate Highway 93 be routed through New Hampshire's Franconia Notch State Park? Situated in the heart of the White Mountains, the Notch is one of nature's masterpieces, a wonderland of sharp cliffs, fast streams and crystalline lakes ringed by pine-covered mountains. It is also the site of a geological formation that has become a symbol...
...protecting one of its priceless treasures. Interstate 93, a major north-south route that stretches from the greater Boston area toward the Canadian border, will indeed cut through the Notch. But instead of the usual four lanes required by Washington-which picks up 90% of the tab if the highway meets federal specifications-regulations will be relaxed. To prevent the widening that would have meant filling in lakes and going into the side of the mountain, the three-mile section running through the Notch will be merely an upgraded version of the two-lane roadway that already bisects the park...
...Spanish who reached Peru in the 16th century were primarily interested in gold. But later visitors have been even more impressed with the Inca highway system, stretching from the ancient capital at Cuzco north into Colombia and south well into Chile. Paved with massive, hand-hewn blocks of stone, the roads have survived the centuries all but intact. The Route of the Incas by Jacques Soustelle (Viking; unpaged; $35) evokes the grandeur of the vanished Inca empire and explains why a people who never used the wheel built such a road network. Hans Silvester's striking photographs capture...
...from the outside and just passing through in their careers are often anxious not to rock the boat locally. Some have about as much feeling for a community's sense of itself and its needs as does the imported manager of a franchised taco joint on the highway outside town. A study of two dozen West Coast newspapers reported in the current Journalism Quarterly concludes that chain papers "have fewer argumentative editorials in controversial contexts on local topics ... The impact is not helpful to readers who seek guidance on local matters...