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...delivery vans and taxis of the roadless north, are just as scary and exotic. They seem as unsubstantial as bicycles, all wires and struts. Wedge yourself into the right-hand front seat next to the pilot, and you may discover that you have a fully operable wheel in your lap and control pedals underfoot. You don't get pedals on the Eastern shuttle. The tourist is much intrigued. Could I learn to fly one of these contraptions? This line of thinking is scarier than orcas or floatplanes because it leads to seductive questions: ''Could I live in this chilly, light...
...Thorn, who lives along the rampaging Iowa River near a major dam in rural Iowa City, fears his home is destroyed. "I'm assuming it has at least eight feet of water," says Thorn, who voluntarily evacuated with his wife on June 7 when "water just started to lap at the door...
...encourage calls for political change. Vietnam remains a stable country of 85 million people with a young and educated workforce. "It is unreasonable for any of us investors to expect this development process not to have challenges," says Nguyen. "But some of the heartache has to fall in the lap of the people who had unrealistic expectations." Unfortunately, most of the heartache will be felt by Vietnam's poor as they struggle to put food on the table...
...never occurred to me, something that I would have said was simply beyond me. I went through Harvard with vague ideas of graduate school (while trying not to think about what speaking in front of a college class would do to me), hoping something would fall into my lap that would answer all my questions...
Obama still can't totally shake Clinton, and the flap over her Robert F. Kennedy comment ensures further intraparty strife. But some Republicans see McCain as ill-defined to voters and slipping in the polls, even before Obama's likely victory-lap bump...