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...better traffic situation" when the signs come down, so far all he has to show are some large piles of sand. If it takes this long to implement such a small project - Bohmte's main street handles just 12,600 cars a day - can shared space really offer relief for the world's gridlocked megacities...
...Airport when he and his friends, pedaling furiously on their bicycles, would race planes taxiing for takeoff on a remote runway. (Airport officials eventually fenced it off.) In 1967 he went to Vietnam, where he had been drafted to serve as a hospital corpsman in the Navy. As a relief from what he describes as "M*A*S*H without the jokes and pretty women," Venter, with the help of some Marines on China Beach, taught himself to sail 19-ft. (5.8 m) sailboats known as Lightnings. "When you're in the middle of a war, freedom is something...
YOUR SPENDING: Save that rebate. President Bush has proposed a relief package worth about $145 billion to juice consumer spending. If you get a check, financial planners recommend first paying down any high-interest debt, like credit cards. After that, it's smartest to save the money--in a tax-deferred account like an IRA, if you can. That may not be what the government is going for, but if we do slip into a recession, you might need the cushion...
...move reassured some markets. Hong Kong stocks rebounded by more than 10%. But relief may be temporary, because emerging-markets investors are finally absorbing a grim truth: the U.S. appears to be in real economic trouble. Most economists now believe the country is on the brink of its first recession since 2001, and that it could be a doozy. Forget all the talk about the "decoupling" of emerging economies, the theory that countries like China and India are no longer dependent upon U.S. trade and can continue to power strong global growth even as the U.S. staggers. "There...
Luckily, my translator had a booming voice, and he shouted at the crowd to calm down. He explained that it had all been a big mistake, the soldier had not intended to insult their national flag, he had merely been misinformed by his Kurdish translator. To my relief, the Iraqis were mollified. Some laughed, others made wisecracks about Kurds...