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...convoy of black Explorers speeding past us. He makes angry eye contact, shouts an order and waves us to the side of the road. It?s the kind of adrenaline-soaked exchange that is routine in downtown Baghdad, where militia, police and security details bristling with weapons slalom through traffic with impunity...
...House Association alone.The week-long trips offered the students a fast-forward lesson in post-disaster uncertainty and stagnation, and one week might not have been enough time to fully grasp it. Students like Datar witnessed the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, visible across the city in everything from dysfunctional traffic lights to the blue tarps marking spots where residents had axed through attic roofs.Later that day in the neighborhood of Gentilly, Smith, looking down at the remains of her home, remembered what it had looked like before.“It was so nice,” she said.Few...
...there is a shortage of truck drivers, but there is also a shortage of judges to hear all the drug and smuggling cases. Arizona ambulance companies face bankruptcy because of all the unreimbursed costs of rescuing illegals from the desert. Schools everywhere here are poor, overcrowded and growing. Truck traffic is good for your business but bad for your health; many border cities routinely fail to meet federal air-quality standards. Border agents get sick from standing on the bridges and inhaling diesel exhaust...
...city to the touristy commercial center it is today.“I think Plympton Street is the most beautiful street in the world,” she said. “You should have seen it before they built up all the dorms. There were trees. The traffic used to go up the street instead of down, and there was very little traffic. The pace was slower.”Solano recalled that places like Grolier’s, which encourages discussion as well as commerce, used to be more abundant in the Square.The cafeterias that used to line...
...transferred to a U.S. Air Force C-17, landed in a pounding thunderstorm at Baghdad International and, because the weather had grounded the US military Blackhawk fleet, boarded an armored SUV and drove into city along the notoriously perilous airport road. At one point they were slowed by a traffic blockage. They went straight to meetings that continued into dinner with Iraqi leaders at U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad?s residence. The sound of an exploding mortar round that had been lobbed over the green zone?s walls disrupted conversations that were, by all accounts, serious and intense...