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...member of Thailand's opposition Democrat Party; as governor of Bangkok. Apirak's victory is a blow to Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's ruling party, whose favored candidate came in a distant second. Apirak, a former telecommunications executive, said his priority would be to tackle Bangkok's bad traffic and pollution...
Hellish Highways "Asian countries are more vulnerable to road-related mishaps because traffic-safety measures have been put on the back burner." Arvind K. Pandey Allahabad, India...
...your article "mean streets" by Jim Erickson [Aug. 9]: Against the background of the high rate of road deaths, Asians must take a close look at what causes car and motorcycle accidents. Asian countries are more vulnerable to road-related mishaps because traffic-safety measures have been put on the back burner. In spite of an increasing number of cars and drivers, governments here don't put a high priority on establishing safer traffic systems. Red tape has further slowed any progress. Some steps that should be taken are developing better postcrash medical treatment, creating safety awareness among drivers...
...certainly need them. For as medical science adds years to our collective lives, we chip away at them by doing things--stewing at our desk jobs, eating fatty processed foods, blowing a gasket in a freeway traffic jam, exercising no more than our fingers at the computer--that centenarians can't imagine. Most of them were born into an America as remote from today's metaphorically as the craggy villages of Sardinia, Okinawa and Nova Scotia are geographically. In the early 1900s people walked miles to work not by choice but out of necessity; cars were still a luxury. People...
...sweltering day in New York City, and five teenage boys are selling bottles of Poland Spring water to drivers stopping at a traffic light in Harlem. Business is slow, so the boys--camped out on lawn chairs on the sidewalk--start bantering about fashion. "L-E T-I-G-R-E. Le Tigre!" shouts one of the young entrepreneurs to another as the rest of them look on in disbelief. "Don't you know what...