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...tempting to judge our mayors for the little things that make city life livable, the depth of the potholes, the smell of the streets, whether or not the traffic lights are in synch. But the best mayors have also been those who act on a grand scale, building bridges, saving schools, finding the funds that cities forever lack...
...world's seventh largest carmaker, with 3.3 million vehicles sold globally?and that includes sales by its Kia subsidiary. But Chung has grand ambitions. "We will make ourselves an invincible competitor," he says. Hyundai's larger rivals should mark those words whenever they check their rearview mirrors for overtaking traffic...
When Korean Air Lines Flight 007 strayed into Soviet air space in 1983, it was out of radar range of both Japanese and U.S. air-traffic controllers. Soviet controllers could have reported the plane's intrusion by sending a message over their teletypewriter system, which was their only means of contacting their Japanese and American counterparts. They did not. Instead, the Soviet military concluded that the plane was on a spying mission and shot it down, killing all 269 people onboard. To prevent the recurrence of such a tragedy and improve air-traffic communications in the North Pacific, diplomats...
...cruised into town, and marveled again, even in the thickish morning traffic, how much smaller Boston was than New York. Jane and I are agreed that we can't go home again-we've been too long in New York, more than 25 years apiece-but, God, we love it up there. We parked under the Common, and then strolled up the wide median of Comm Ave. The trees and earliest daffodils were abloom, and all was right with the world. We were the reigning world champs...
...house since the Pope?s death. Ristorante Armando, which is a favorite of several powerful Roman Curia Cardinals, has had to settle for priests and bishops this past week. ?We haven?t seen any of them,? said owner Armando Desimone, who remembers much more red-hat traffic back in 1978. ?And I don?t? think they?ll come. It?s too delicate.? The search continues-though we, too, may have to settle for priests and bishops...