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...resident of Pensacola Beach, had intended to stay close by. When she was finally persuaded to leave, she found herself trapped in the massive gridlock that formed along woefully inadequate evacuation routes. "I sat in traffic for hours and then gave up," says Brown. She finally drove off the highway and rode out the storm, stuck with her dog in a parking lot. Many who did get off the narrow barrier islands drove for hours--some for as many as 13 hours--looking for a dry place to spend the night...
...every commander's nightmare. I said, 'Follow me,' and found myself alone." --Israeli militant Moshe Feiglin, leader of the group Zu Artzenu (This Is Our Land), after attempting to lead a group of West Bank settlers in a protest to block an Israeli highway. The protest was in response to the Israeli government's agreeing to transfer several West Bank towns to Palestinian control...
...credibility over the past few months, this comment revealed part of the deeper structure of Republican plans for hegemony over the coming years. As the United States enters its post-industrial age, the conservative Congress is working hard to ensure continuing close ties with the builders of the information highway...
Standing off Highway 18 on the Pine Ridge reservation is what Slade Gorton would like to believe is a symbol of hope and self-sufficiency. It is Prairie Wind, the Oglala Sioux's venture into Indian gambling. Housed temporarily in two connected double-wide trailers, it consists of several slot machines and two tables for poker and blackjack. The casino's revenues in its 10 months of existence have run from $13,000 to $92,000 a month, of which 30% is earmarked for its investors. Thus far, after expenses, it has provided $10,000 for children's school clothes...
...endgame. The prisoner catch was approaching 70,000. Saddam had ordered his forces to withdraw from Kuwait. The last major escape route was choked with fleeing soldiers and littered with the charred hulks of nearly 1,500 military and civilian vehicles. Reporters began referring to this road as the "Highway of Death...