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...country's overloaded road network. The Netherlands may be known overseas for its cycling culture, but outside the country's city centers, gridlock is the more dreary reality. Vehicle use has risen sharply over the years, but road capacity has yet to catch up - in part due to lack of space. Previous attempts to reduce traffic - from offering incentives to people who carpool to giving away free croissants and newspapers on public transport - have had little effect. The government estimates that a typical rush hour has about 270 kilometers of traffic jams, although the GPS maker TomTom often records...
This ability to dominate in many respects of the game will be crucial in Ivy League play, where the lack of a postseason tournament makes each league contest critical. For its part, Harvard proved last season that it could play with anybody, defeating Boston College and Cornell, but its inability to match the Big Red's steadiness led to disappointing losses against lesser opponents like Dartmouth and Brown...
Last night, Cornell’s lack of depth was exposed. The Big Red went to its reserves early on, but the bench contributed just six points in 50 minutes of play and was outscored by St. John’s backups, 25-6. Meanwhile, Harvard’s bench has outscored its opponent’s reserves in each of the Crimson’s nine matchups...
...press Iran into changing its position. And Tehran's defiance is helping Washington make its case. A British newspaper recently published what it claimed was new evidence that Iran is developing weapons components, although the authenticity of the documents concerned has yet to be established. But Tehran's lack of cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency will likely compel even Russia and China to support some uptick in U.N. sanctions...
...Newspapers in Britain and France are filled with photos of infuriated customers being turned away at the Eurostar counters in London and Paris, some of whom were forced to spend at least one night camped out on the floor. In many cases, travelers have been angrier at the lack of information being provided by Eurostar than at the damage the situation has done to their holiday plans. And these are the lucky ones. Many of the more than 2,000 people who were trapped for hours in the dark Channel Tunnel on Friday night complained that virtually nothing had been...