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...robust debate about what should and should not be tolerated by the agents of paternalism. Of course it follows that the trooper already conjured is predisposed to feel very differently about the speed limit. He likely has some incentive to racking up a certain number of dollars in traffic violations, reaching into the pockets of those very libertines—modern-day Patrick-Henries, all—whose tax-averse lifestyle the Granite State so loudly pretends to endorse. Perhaps this individual only likes seeing road-trip bonheur melt into something worse. There’s really...
...Delhi and Mumbai have been placed on high alert, and there is a palpable sense of panic in the capital. For at least an hour after the blasts, phone lines were jammed and traffic slowed to a crawl as people rushed home to safety. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh condemned the blasts and appealed for calm. Police said all the explosions were low intensity, but don't know much about the nature or composition of the bombs. Unconfirmed reports say that bombs were detonated on a bicycle, in a dustbin and in an autorickshaw...
...Friday, and the skies are still blue and the sun is shining. I'm sitting at the kitchen bar in my parents' condo on Main Street, looking out at the city. The palm trees and crepe myrtles are still showing no wind, and there's hardly any traffic. Everyone was told to stay home. The grocery stores and some restaurants are still open, at least until 3 p.m. But the banks closed at 10 a.m., which reminds me: I forgot to get money. Here's hoping I can find an ATM that still has cash. I had to wait...
...helped a woman chase excited monkeys from her kitchen (they were eating her cakes) and assisted a man who stopped his car at a traffic light and saw a snake writhing in the backseat. Colleagues have taken monkeys electrocuted by overhead power lines to vets, rescued sloths making painfully slow progress while crossing roads and even captured an alligator who had chased a cat up a tree. (See photos of Primates on the Danger List here...
...teaching Americans how to navigate them. (Folks, cars entering a roundabout yield to those already in it.) But the heightened anxiety people feel in roundabouts makes them drive more carefully and remember that intersections are dangerous places. And as Tom Vanderbilt notes in this summer's best seller Traffic, "The system that makes us more aware of this is actually the safer...