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...This limits congestion. Also, given the volume of inconsiderate drivers on the road nowadays, their bad traits are likely to be transferred to the nation's walkways if they choose to use the Segway to get around town. I'd rather experience the interaction and occasional ballet of foot traffic among my fellow citizens. EUGENE KING San Diego...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 31, 2001 | 12/31/2001 | See Source »

...Segway vehicle is a great idea! If inventor Kamen's vision of cities free of automobile traffic comes true, won't this be a much better world? Less pollution from car emissions, fewer traffic jams. Imagine this in Bangkok! Maybe we should start thinking about providing parking lots for Segways right now. SUMMER KHOO Johor, Malaysia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 31, 2001 | 12/31/2001 | See Source »

...last of their leftover winter inventory on shoppers returning unwearable sweaters for store credit. This year the price cuts will go all the way to the bone and beyond, and there are hopes that the bargains (getting plenty of free publicity from economics writers) will draw enough mall traffic to get the job done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Retailers Set Sale For a Post-Christmas Clean-up | 12/26/2001 | See Source »

...long will it take? Some numbers: There are currently 153 of said machines at 50 airports - and 2,000 are needed to cover all 430 U.S. airports that handle commercial air traffic. There is some wiggle room: the airlines are permitted to fulfill their bag-check requirement another way: by instituting bag-matching rules, which keeps unaccompanied (and potentially dangerous) bags off planes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tougher Airline Security? Not Yet | 12/26/2001 | See Source »

...trees, and is lined on both sides with smashed houses and the odd gutted church. Apart from a few desultory looters?just about everything that could be moved has already been carted away?the only human presence amid the utter destruction is a handful of local Muslim men checking traffic for any Christian foolish enough to return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia's Dirty Little Holy War | 12/17/2001 | See Source »

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