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...Gallagher has a plan for America's "blue highways," the thousands of miles of dusty, old, single-lane heritage routes that wend desolately through the countryside: turn them green. Superseded by high-speed interstates, many of these narrow byways have been long forgotten, along with the faded small towns they connect, says Gallagher, a project manager for the Southwest Michigan Planning Commission. But off-the-beaten-path America could be revived, she says, by transforming little-used roadways into "green highways" that cater specifically to electric-vehicle drivers and other slow-moving, eco-minded tourists traveling by bicycle...
...Demme's new film, Rachel Getting Married, is arguably an attempt on the part of the director to wend his way back to his roots. It's a small-scale comedy, written by Jenny Lumet (daughter of Sidney Lumet), in which a smugly PC family gathers to celebrate the wedding of their perfectly beautiful, perfectly balanced daughter, played by Rosemarie DeWitt. This is not just a wedding, however; it is also a sociopolitical statement, for the groom is a handsome black man, scion of a family that is far more conventional and bourgeois than the bride's family, and especially...
...Harley Shaiken, a professor of information technology at the University of California at San Diego who has studied the phenomenon, such white-collar transfers amount to perhaps no more than the equivalent of 15,000 jobs right now. But more and more of this work is beginning to wend its way to the Caribbean, parts of Asia and other literate regions where intellectual skills are for hire at relatively low cost. In Dallas, for example, Pacific Data Services has been subcontracting computer work for clients since 1981 to data centers in the People's Republic of China. PDS boasts that...
...hundreds of onlookers, of the treacherous narrow and winding roads in this northeast corner of the country. Up ahead, soldiers were hammering steel pins into the hard earth to winch the wrecked vehicle up onto the road. The scene was chaotic. A few cars had managed to wend their way through the crush of traffic and were trying to slide under the low-slung metal cable tethered to the truck in the ditch. One, an SUV, was a bit too high; as it edged forward the cable scraped along its roof. Soldiers rushed in and forced the driver to stop...
...Haifa and maybe the northern outskirts of Tel Aviv. The Israeli military estimates that Hizballah's arsenal now has over 20,000 short-range missiles and hundreds of medium-range ones. This arms pipeline starts in Iran, where shipments are usually loaded onto trains as disguised cargo, and wend their way across Turkey to Syria. From there, they are taken over the mountain passes to Lebanon by trucks, often smuggled under loads of vegetables. Iranian Revolutionary Guard officers, working from a military base near Damascus, direct this arms flow, these sources claim...