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...The Asphalt Industry Alliance said: “Local authorities don’t have the funds to allow them to carry out the appropriate maintenance interventions.”...
...Sitting in the middle of the road in front of my house on a hot summer day and crafting beautiful patterns of holes by pushing the tip of my small index finger into the melting asphalt that had just been...
...According to police, Atsushi Ozawa, temporarily blinded by avicidal rage and a sense of mankind’s territorial right to all available asphalt, drove his cab into a flock of pigeons that refused to accept...
...Asphalt roads contain pieces of them to reduce noise. Clever tyre formulations can deliver lower rolling resistance to vehicles, giving a carbon dioxide emissions benefit to the manufacturer....
...In the Caribbean, typical costs are more like $10 to 12 per sq ft for a covering such as asphalt shingles....
...Free to use, they were meant to combat “the asphalt terror of the motorised masses”....
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...One local farmer-guesthouse owner is already lamenting the asphalt road that was built across nearly all the Valbona valley, reaching his door....
..., must have damp, nutrient-rich soil, but every night I drive home from a 60-year-old specimen growing to a fine height and flowering freely, though rooted in alkaline soil, unenriched, beside a raised asphalt...
...Mycelium’s fungal root structure can break down and detoxify waste such as asphalt shingles, rubber and gypsum, creating new composite materials that can be used for insulation and acoustic tiles....
...They’re used for asphalt, plastics, industrial products, etc. So it is tougher draw a direct line between heavy-oil imports and gasoline prices....
...The section labelled “Joy” announces itself with four life-sized, airborne kids playing jump-rope, sculpted by John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres; you can practically hear the shrieks and feel the sizzling asphalt...
...I stand at the bottom of the hill, where she comes to a stop in a noisy yet elegant blur, sparks flying from her hand as glove meets asphalt....
...versatility: Fara F/All-Road Thanks to road-bike geometry and a full carbon-fibre frame (that includes aero-integrated bars), there is little sacrifice in speed when riding this multi-terrain model on asphalt...
...Diggers appeared on the highway and began to tear holes in the asphalt. The Oka river, which cuts across the region just south of Moscow, became a key defence line for the capital....
...In Hudson County, though, the senator’s legal drama is a more visceral affair: like the toppling of a king who ruled over an asphalt realm, with all the attendant speculation about how the spoils might be...
...I’ve also switched allegiances from the Gel-Kayano to the Gel-Sonoma; they’re the perfect crossover trail shoe, as good on rocks and slippery inclines as they are on flat dirt or asphalt roads (for the occasional...
...a landscape of “half-finished graffiti on the metal grate of a closed-down drugstore; a crop of overflowing garbage cans past due for pickup; the aftermath of a smashed windshield, glass squares on the asphalt...
...They levelled entire blocks of downtown real estate — the types of buildings we would now fawn over as relics of modernist architecture — and replaced them with asphalt and brightly painted lines....
...The construction business became a stepping stone to a larger empire that included brick and asphalt factories; housing developments; chicken, citrus fruit and olive farms; and an office block that bears...
...While some of us are foolhardy roadies, comfortable zipping along on a skinny strip of asphalt next to cars, SUVs and cement trucks, many more want a protected or, at least, quiet route where they can pedal...
...Barcelona Institute for Global Health, said trees could play a big role in reducing the intensity of urban heat islands, which result from the abundance of heat-retaining materials such as concrete and asphalt...
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