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...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...
Responses to a questionnaire sent out by Alaska's Senator Ted Stevens showed that 73% of Alaskans want to keep the name Mount McKinley, while only 23% favor the change. Alaska now has a Denali Pass, Denali Camp, Denali State Park and Denali Highway. This makes that name rather commonplace, compared to that of the martyred President who, history records, was a leader in labor-law reform and in making the U.S. a dynamic world force-among other achievements...
...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...
Electronic breath analyzers have long been standard equipment for highway patrolmen. Now they are also featured in about 150 bars in at least eleven states (and some 400 pubs in Canada as well). A drinker merely drops a quarter in a slot and blows in a straw. The machine then registers the alcohol level in his or her blood. In most states, anyone with a reading of more than .10% alcohol in the blood is considered legally drunk...
Such chases look fine in Hollywood thrillers, but in real life they often end tragically. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that of 250,000 high-speed police pursuits every year, nearly 8,000 end in crashes, with some 400 people killed and 5,000 injured...