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Your report on recent american hurricanes included a large photo of an evacuation from Houston with the highway clogged with suvs, trucks and large cars in long lines. When are Americans going to realize that their extravagant way of living and their reckless consumerism are prime culprits for many environmental catastrophes in the world? We should thank God that there is only one U.S.; otherwise the human race would have been wiped out a long time ago. Ramin Akbari Tehran...
...Your report on recent American hurricanes included a large photo of an evacuation from Houston with the highway clogged with long lines of SUVs, trucks and large cars. When are Americans going to realize that their extravagant way of living and their reckless consumerism are prime culprits for many environmental catastrophes in the world? We should thank God that there is only one U.S.; otherwise the human race would have been wiped out a long time ago. Ramin Akbari Tehran...
...rolling south from Pyongyang toward Kaesong near the DMZ, searching for signs of economic life in North Korea. Pyongyang, the capital, was like a ghost town?its spotless streets scrubbed clean of the messy bustle that defines most Asian capitals. The highway to the country's second-biggest city is nearly deserted. But our government handlers have promised to show us the Kaesong industrial park, where North Koreans are churning out watches, shoes and kitchenware in newly built South Korean-owned factories. After a two-hour drive, the bus stops on a bridge in the middle of nowhere. No industrial...
...spending her later years this way. She and her husband Alva Don raised four children. In the 1980s they lived in Montana, where he earned a good living as a long-haul truck driver for Pacific Intermountain Express. But in 1986 he was killed on the job in a highway accident attributed to faulty maintenance on his truck, as his company struggled to survive the cutthroat pricing of congressionally ordered deregulation. After her husband's death, Whitehouse knew the future would be tough, but she was confident in her economic survival. After all, the company had promised her a death...
...alternative energy may be easier. Republican Representative Richard Pombo of California, chairman of the Resources Committee, says, "There is already an incentive to develop new technology. You just have to send a real clear signal that the Federal Government wants to." But a wholesale push to change our highway culture is unlikely. European countries decided long ago that it paid off to interfere in the free market by discouraging oil consumption and subsidizing mass transit, but that's not the American...