Word: metros
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...Eyzaguirre's complaint is common among Santiago residents these days - ever since the government launched the new transit system in February, commuters have found their daily journeys to work disrupted, their metro trains overcrowded and their roads clogged with traffic...
Sources: AP (2); USA Today (2); Metro (UK); Guinness Book of World Records; Forrester; USA Today
...region wet. Even if the effects of climate change turn out to be milder than feared, the same population growth that puts people in the way of fires also strains the scarce water supplies needed to fight them. In San Diego County, home to one of the fastest-growing metro areas in the U.S., water use has risen by about 34% since 1995. "We've set ourselves up for this," says JPL's Patzert. "We've been handing out building permits without considering the requirements for water...
...even get along with Denver's snippy media, which have long branded the team's primary owners--brothers Dick and Charlie Monfort, of Monfort Beef fame--as dunces. The Rockies were born in 1993 after 30 years of snubs from baseball's pooh-bahs, who were concerned about the metro region's slight population, lousy stadium, capricious weather and high altitude. When baseball finally caved, its reward came swiftly: the Rockies' opening day drew 80,227 to old Mile High Stadium--still the largest single-game turnout in baseball history--and first-year attendance totaled 4.5 million. These were happy...
...Many French people have adopted the traditional Gallic shrug toward striking public service workers who have left them stranded. "You can't blame them for protecting their perks. No want wants entitlements taken away," said university student Anne Gautier, 22, as she walked away from a crowded Metro station to walk to classes. But not all Parisians were pounding the pavement with the same sympathetic mood. "As usual, the ordinary worker being taken hostage by a minority of people who've decided they come first," complains an accountant who would only give her first name, Chantal. "I didn't strike...