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LOS ANGELES — To combat its infamous traffic, Los Angeles has built subways and light rail lines. It has widened highways and added car pool, toll and bus-only lanes. But the roads have remained stubbornly clogged, creating a drag on commerce and the quality of life that has persisted here for generations. Now, in the latest ambitious and costly assault on gridlock, Los Angeles has synchronized every one of its 4,500 [...] By Michael What in the world is China up to? Over the past several years, the Chinese government and large Chinese corporations (which are often at least partially owned by the government) have been systematically buying up businesses, homes, farmland, real estate, infrastructure and natural resources all over America. In some cases, China appears to be attempting to purchase entire communities in one fell swoop. So why is this happening? Is [...] It was supposed to be a bustling modern metropolis housing 30,000 people not far from the Spanish capital city. But all that’s left now is a ghost town with barely 1000 residents. Ciudad Valdeluz is a stark reminder of the effect of the global economic slump which led to the Spanish property crash. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2203278/Empty-streets-playgrounds-Spanish-ghost-town-built-property-crash.html#ixzz26TIA4dFf http://viewzone2.com/adamscalendarx.html Something amazing has been discovered in an area of South Africa, about 150 miles inland, west of the port of Maputo. It is the remains of a huge metropolis that measures, in conservative estimates, about 1500 square miles. It’s part of an even larger community that is about 10,000 square miles and appears to have been constructed — are you ready — from 160,000 to 200,000 BCE! The area is significant [...] http://viewzone2.com/adamscalendarx.html Something amazing has been discovered in an area of South Africa, about 150 miles inland, west of the port of Maputo. It is the remains of a huge metropolis that measures, in conservative estimates, about 1500 square miles. It’s part of an even larger community that is about 10,000 square miles and appears to have been constructed — are you ready — from 160,000 to 200,000 BCE! The area is significant [...] With sprawling housing developments and state-of-the-art skyscrapers, the outward impression is of a bustling metropolis. But look closer and the so-called Kangbashi New Area of the Chinese city of Ordos is anything but teeming with people. Known as the ghost town district of the wealthy mining city, it was built to house a million residents. But less than 30,000 live in this spanking new town, the construction of which started in 2004. Yet it [...] Construction on the Kangbashi New Area of the city of Ordos started in 2004 With sprawling housing developments and state-of-the-art skyscrapers, the outward impression is of a bustling metropolis. But look closer and the so-called Kangbashi New Area of the Chinese city of Ordos is anything but teeming with people. Known as the ghost town district of the wealthy mining city, it was built [...] Young and old residents of the Chinese metropolis of Wuhan were advised to stay indoors on Monday after a thick haze blanketed the city of nine million people, official media said. Described by residents as opaque with yellowish and greenish tinges, the fug descended suddenly in the morning, prompting people to rush to put on face masks, witnesses told AFP. The official Xinhua news agency quoted the environmental protection department of Hubei [...] ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico, home to several of the nation’s premier scientific, nuclear and military institutions, is planning to embark on a science project of unprecedented scale – a petri dish the size of a large U.S. city. A Washington-based technology company announced plans Tuesday to build a 20-square-mile model metropolis that would be used to test everything from [...] CHICAGO (CBS) — That morning cup of coffee is going to cost you more. Coffee prices are at a 34-year high — $3 a pound. “It’s like a tradition for me. We drink coffee every day,” coffee lover Yosef Alemayehu says. But the cost of that cup of coffee is way up. At Metropolis in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood, the price of a pound of coffee is up by 45 cents. And they’ve raised the [...] |
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