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...eerie silence in Adamstown. Between the rows of sleek apartment buildings in this new housing development in suburban Dublin, buses meander the empty streets, searching in vain for passengers to take into the capital. On street corners, pedestrian crossing lights shine brightly, ready to guide residents through the nonexistent traffic...
...tics are a small price to pay for his biggest asset: his tremendous, limitless energy. Columbia's Mitchell calls it "government by adrenaline." Saakashvili is addicted to quick, dramatic acts of leadership. Particularly in the early years, he got results. One example: when he came to power, Georgia's traffic police were notorious bribe seekers. So he fired every one of them and hired an entirely new, clean police force...
John S. Allen, the director of “Grand Street,” a short film that shows bicyclists riding down the controversial Grand Street bicycle lane in New York City, which separates cyclists from traffic with a row of parked cars. The film was shot in one take, using cameras in front of and behind the two cyclists...
...pilots of Northwest Airlines Flight 188 suffered a "loss of situational awareness" on Oct. 21 when their plane shot past its destination, Minneapolis, and continued flying for another 150 miles. After the flight from San Diego with 149 people aboard spent some 78 minutes out of contact with air-traffic control - a period that reportedly ended only when a concerned flight attendant contacted the pilots by intercom - the plane turned around over Wisconsin and landed safely. The pilots told authorities they were discussing "airline policy" during their odd detour, though many observers believe a more plausible explanation is that they...
...February 2008, a Go! Airlines flight from Honolulu overshot the airport in Hilo, Hawaii, and continued for some 30 miles over the Pacific Ocean before circling back. The captain originally said they had entered the wrong air-traffic-control frequency, but both pilots later admitted they had fallen asleep. A contributing factor to the incident, according to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), was the captain's undiagnosed sleep apnea, which authorities call a growing cause of transportation accidents...