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...slick sheen, with trademark frank lyrics, accompanied by soothing, Enya-like vocals. In these songs, “Interstate 5 (Extended Version)” in particular, the guitars are drawn out to dramatic effect, churning and emotionally pulling, evoking images of intent searching on a dark highway, in the sort of film-music vein so inspirational to Cinerama...
...sharing is to have a national impact on congestion, it must surmount a basic paradox: everyone hates traffic and smog, but few people are willing to give up their cars. In the U.S., as the saying goes, you are what you drive. And a half-century of highway subsidies has only fueled the sense of entitlement. According to a poll on traffic by TIME, ABC News and the Washington Post, only 10% of those surveyed who have access to mass transit actually use it regularly. "There's a stigma to not owning a car," says Kim, the Seattle architect. "People...
...lane Abu Ghraib Expressway. "We're taking fire in the rear!" radioed a truck driver. Within seconds, the entire convoy was under a barrage from an estimated 150 insurgents lurking in roadside shacks. Bullets, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars peppered the vehicles. Fuel, pouring from punctured tankers, turned the highway as slick...
...soldier behind Maupin's tanker saw it explode, swerve off the highway and plunge into a ditch. "They were hammering the daylights out of us," says Thomas Hamill, the civilian convoy commander. "I believe they were planning on taking everybody in that convoy out." While the insurgents failed in that goal, they did kill at least six Americans among the roughly 50 in the convoy. The bodies of four civilians and two soldiers from the 724th, Specialist Gregory Goodrich and Sergeant Elmer Krause, have been recovered. Hamill was taken prisoner and escaped after a month. One of the authors...
...strong revolt among unaffiliated voters and women, formerly his staunchest fans. "People are bitter because they feel that many of the so-called 'Koizumi reforms' are proving to be an illusion," says political analyst Takao Toshikawa. Despite Koizumi's successful handling of Japan's banking crisis, his initiatives in highway and pension reform have bogged down, while his plans to privatize the nation's postal-savings system remain mired in controversy...