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Americans spend hours every day sitting in traffic. And the roads they idle on are often rough and potholed, with exits, tunnels, guardrails, and bridges in terrible disrepair. According to transportation expert Robert Poole, this congestion and deterioration are outcomes of the way America manages its highways. Our twentieth-century model overly politicizes highway investment decisions, short-changing maintenance and often investing in projects whose...
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A vivid account of China's unstoppable quest to build a railway into Tibet, and its obsession to transform its land and its people.
In the summer of 2006, the Chinese government fulfilled a fifty-year plan to build a railway into Tibet. Since Mao Zedong first envisioned it, the line had grown into an imperative, a critical component of China's breakneck expansion and the final maneuver in strengthening China's grip over this remote and often mystical...
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Report / 112th Congress 2d session House of Representatives volume 112-396
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2012
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Report / 113th Congress 2d session House of Representatives volume 113-554
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[2014]
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English
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