Word: lanes
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YOUR ARTICLE ON TALK-SHOW HOST RICKI Lake and the rise of trash TV was very timely [Television, Jan. 30]. Lane's show in particular was the reason I recently had my cable service canceled. I find it very disturbing that trashy people are allowed to go on national TV with the sordid facts, real or fabricated, about their pathetic lives. These are people I would never associate with or ever want to meet. It's maddening to have them on network TV, screaming out from channel to channel. There are viewers watching these shows who feel...
...sort of a poignant irony.'' Yet last Tuesday, even as he discussed his campaign themes, Quayle sounded wary of the personal sacrifices. Some friends believe his hospitalizations may have tempered his ambitions. ``It's so nice and quiet here,'' he said, as snow dusted the trees along the country lane where the Quayles live. ``On Saturday mornings I like to come down early and read in the den. It's so wonderful and peaceful that I just get lost in it.'' Then he added, ``When you get into this money-grubbing business of raising $20 million, when are you going...
...divided highway lances through the beauties of a Pennsylvania dawn, morning frost glinting across the hills below. It's hard to enjoy the natural wonders, though, when ALVINN is behind the wheel, doing 88 km/h in the fast lane. First he lurches right, crossing both lanes of the blacktop and alarming bleary-eyed commuters trying to share the road. Then he careens to the left, skidding onto the gravel shoulder and nearly into a ditch. Finally Todd Jochem, 27, a graduate student at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University, wrests the wheel of the four-wheel-drive Humvee from ALVINN while...
Other panelists representing civil liberties and tenant groups expressed sharp disagreement with Lane's proposal. They said it would not be in the best interests of tenants...
SHANGHAI: Crash Zone Drivers who hoped the new inner-city elevated beltway around Shanghai would relieve the city's nightmarish traffic congestion are anything but relieved. Since its opening on Nov. 6, the 48-km, four-lane ring road has become a four-ring circus of chills and spills. Vehicles have smashed into walls, flipped over and collided with other cars driven in the wrong direction. Though no one has been killed so far, the highway's first 44 days of use were a demolition derby, with 1,002 crashes and breakdowns reported--or about one incident an hour...