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...council project aimed at turn this historic quarter of Paris into the city's largest "Green Village." To make way for wider sidewalks, cycle lanes and new scooter parks, diggers have torn up chunks of some of Montmartre's most famous thoroughfares, unsentimentally replacing them with uniform layers of tarmac...
...council project aimed at turn this historic quarter of Paris into the city's largest "Green Village." To make way for wider sidewalks, cycle lanes and new scooter parks, diggers have torn up chunks of some of Montmartre's most famous thoroughfares, unsentimentally replacing them with uniform layers of tarmac...
California Democrat Barbara Boxer has submitted a bill that addresses only the most basic needs of passengers. Adequate food, drinking water and restrooms must be available to people stuck waiting on planes, and they must have the option to disembark after sitting on the tarmac for three hours...
...more than 250 domestic and international flights in the wake of a crippling ice storm in New York City. Fliers around the world were stranded and honeymoons and business meetings missed. Among the made-for-TV stories that emerged: passengers on nine JetBlue flights were held on the icy tarmac at John F. Kennedy Airport - some for more than 10 hours - with little more than a bit of snack food and some fetid latrines for company...
...headache for China's policymakers. Fearing disgruntled Westerners would grow unruly, Beijing stepped in seven years ago with an aggressive program to bring balance to the national economy. The government poured money into infrastructure like new airports and expressways throughout western China, with good result. "We follow the tarmac," notes Andy Coslett, CEO of Intercontinental Hotels, which is building like mad in Chengdu, Chongqing, Xi'an and other cities...