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...site’s theme is embodied in its logo, a blue and red highway sign for “Interstate W’04.” The welcome page superimposes this logo onto a picturesque image of the open country road underneath crystal blue skies—presumably in attempts to conjure up the Zen of the poised W. presidency and the limitless potential on the horizon of boundless “compassionate conservatism.” Of course, the irony of the picture is that the empty road—and I say “empty?...
...Mexico A BUREAUCRAT BY ANY NAME A referendum sought to change the name of the state highway commission to the state transportation commission. Passed...
...mythical Naga. "Watch what you say when you get there," advised the smiling service station attendant. "It's a sacred place," croaked a gimlet-eyed crone squatting outside a shop where I stopped for water. "Be careful." Thus it was with some trepidation that I turned off the highway and followed the signs along a strip of crumbling bitumen. I passed through the gates of a temple and found the tallest palm trees I've ever seen, jutting skyward from a lush hump of jungle-covered earth in the middle of a weed-strewn lake. It looked like...
...notorious Cali cocaine cartel had served just seven years of his 17-year sentence for smuggling drugs to the United States. The Colombian government ordered an investigation into Judge Luz Amanda Moncada's conduct because ministers suspected corruption. MEANWHILE Dragon their feet Work on a New Zealand highway was stopped because of Karutahi, a legendary one-eyed dragon said to live in a swamp on the route. Sonny Wara of the Ngati Naho tribe said the dragon was "a feared thing in Maoridom" and sought talks with the road authorities. Officials, choosing not to mess with the myth, agreed...
...into the trunk. They must have slept soundly, since they didn't hear federal agents and police creeping up on all sides, armed with submachine guns. Appropriately, they were seized in the same benign setting in which they had allegedly stalked their victims--a nondescript parking lot off a highway outside Washington. It is hard to imagine what castles of delusion came crashing down when the tactical team smashed in the windows of the Caprice and dragged the two out into the nighttime chill. The air was filled with screams, but witnesses could not discern if they emanated from...