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...merely extending his or her finger, pedestrian can control traffic signals, turning green lights read and bringing cars to a virtual standstill. But how powerful is the cross-walk button? can it really turn a traffic light red or is it simply a ruse devised to calm impatient street-crossers? according to Don Burgess associate traffic engineer at the Boston Department of Transportation, the answer...
This browning is nowhere more noticeable than on the sidewalks, which have quickly come to resemble treacherous snowbound crevices, paved with slush. The snow gives rise to novel questions of etiquette. If the slushway is wide enough for only one, should you wait for the pedestrian 50 yards up ahead coming in the opposite direction to complete his journey before yourself embarking? Or should you choose to ignore him, and halfway along engage in an awkward Snow Dance--strangers in the snow, exchanging footing...
...cheerful surroundings and youthful excitement, however, are a false window into the mood of most Muscovites. Apart from a few cosmetic changes, the city is literally a mess, giving citizens far more immediate problems to worry about than Kremlin intrigues and superpower summitry. Injuries from slips, falls and other pedestrian mishaps were reported to be running as high as 1,200 a day because the city can no longer afford enough tools and workers to clear the filthy, slush-filled streets. Mountains of sodden cardboard boxes are piling up behind new sheet-metal stands, where vendors sell cigarettes, candy...
...Wine Atlas of California and the Pacific Northwest (Simon & Schuster; $45) is also organized by AVAS. Its military-precise maps are much better than those in Halliday's atlas, which are mostly in murky shades of camouflage green. But author Bob Thompson's prose is pedestrian, and his assessments of wineries have as much tang as blush...
Romans split between the Democratic Party of the Left, which backed Francesco Rutelli, 39, a Green candidate who ran on an environmentalist platform promising to bring pedestrian zones and pollution controls to the decaying capital, and the baby-faced leader of the neofascist Italian Social Movement, Gianfranco Fini, 41. He contended his party best responds to public demands for law and order, immigration controls and restoration of the death penalty. The top two vote getters in Naples, the city that has come to symbolize southern Italy's chronic poverty and lawlessness, were Antonio Bassolino, a 46-year-old veteran communist...