Word: viaduct
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...street. I was in a huge traffic jam, going in the wrong direction. Ahead of me was some sort of viaduct, choked with traffic. I couldn't get over the notion that it was the bridge to the 21st century...
...when he was supposed to fire on some rival gang members but shot 14-year-old Shavon Dean instead. Police descended on the gang, and Yummy became a liability. So he became a victim too. When he was found dead in a bloody mud puddle under a railway viaduct three days later, an entire city shuddered and clutched its children and looked for lessons...
...Yummy Sandifer was found under a South Side train viaduct last Thursday, shot to death "execution style." He had two .22-cal. bullet wounds in the back of his head. Gang members had hidden Sandifer in various locations for three days, then, fearing the boy would crumble under police pressure, told him they were driving him out of town. Instead they killed him under the viaduct. "He never knew what hit him," said police spokesman William Davis. On Friday Chicago police charged two brothers, ages 14 and 16, with Sandifer's death. Police say the 14-year-old confessed...
...Linn Cove Viaduct, a segment of the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina, built by the National Park Service and the Federal Highway Administration. The jury calls it "an elegant curving ribbon that caresses the terrain without using it as a support. It gives the motorist the sensation of driving tantalizingly on air while the earth goes...
...rules. No one will deny hard work and perseverance as signposts to the path of success, but the world of Sowell and other "human capital" economists requires much more. The vital ingredient to playing the game in ethnic America has been investing in skills, and the most crucial viaduct, education. German Americans brought skills in both crafts and entrepreneurship from the old country and secured a place for their descendents. Jews and Japanese invested heavily in education and reached the pinnacles of the nation's affluence, leaving the Irish and Italians far behind. Sowell attributed the abysmal failure of most...