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{"commentId":938442,"authorDomain":"epiphany-sorbet"}
It's too bad that the overpaid headline writer couldn't make the noun and the verb agree.
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#1 - Fri Aug 10, 2007 8:03 PM EDT{"commentId":938665,"authorDomain":"spacegoat"}
Just like Americans themselves, the nation's roads and bridges are carrying much more weight today.
Not to mention the corny opening.
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- 6 votes
{"commentId":938811,"authorDomain":"PamelaDrew"}
Too many of the "journalistic" entities get Craigs List, type free lance internss instead of paying for talented staff positions. The eternal squeeze to do more the next quarter for Wall Street has to come from somewhere.
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- 6 votes
{"commentId":939061,"authorDomain":"epiphany-sorbet"}
Well, they corrected the headline, but the corny and nagging opening paragraph remains.
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{"commentId":938450,"authorDomain":"simon-says"}
Then don't build oversized cars and trucks! Gah...
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#2 - Fri Aug 10, 2007 8:07 PM EDT{"commentId":938625,"authorDomain":"ivy-mike"}
I couldn't get past the first paragraph. I tend to get upset when Americans are tagged as the fat and lazy ones.
So, let me clear my throat:
Nearly two thirds of men and over half of women in England are now overweight or obese. Overweight & Obesity - Britain
In fact, when it comes fat men in Europe, Germany takes the cake...and eats it too: No other nation in Europe has more fat and obese men as a percentage of the population. German women aren't much better: Only Great Britain has more obese women as a percentage of its population. Davids Medienkritik: Who's Fat? German Hypocrisy by the Kilo
The Australian Bureau of Statistics report into national social trends said 54 per cent of adults were overweight based on 2004-05 figures, up from 45 per cent in 1995. DNA - Health Line - Most Aussies now classified as obese or overweight - Daily News & Analysis
The Obesity Epidemic in Canada(PRB 05-11E)
Fifty-one percent of the population here is overweight or obese, compared with the national average of 42 percent, according to the most recent national figures in 2003. France Battles a Problem That Grows and Grows: Fat - New York Times
Ok now that thats out of the way I need to clean these wings off my plate; my triple bacon bleu cheese 12 pound hamburgers coming. They better have doubled the fries this time. The last time I counted it was only 7/8ths more and not double. WHERES THE BLOODY MAYO?!!!!!!
Gimme a bucket....I'm full.
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- 4 votes
#3 - Fri Aug 10, 2007 10:28 PM EDT{"commentId":938740,"authorDomain":"BillJetter"}
I know Mr. Creosote.
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":939089,"authorDomain":"lastofthegoodguy"}
theres lots of clever well educated people here comenting on lots of issues. As for myself well i'm just a Northern Irish country boy but it seems to me that no bridge in any developed country should fall down. Having been in (and drove large trucks on the roads of) germany, Britain, U.S.A. and lots of other places I can tell you that Ireland has the worse roads, the heaviest loads and the least law inforcement but the bridges stay up. Someone has to be responsible for road safety and they should be held to account
P.S. Obesity knows no national boundaries.
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#4 - Sat Aug 11, 2007 7:31 AM EDT{"commentId":939104,"authorDomain":"cobbs"}
The warehouses that used to fill up are now driving down the road next to you
The increase in truck weight corresponds with American industry adopting Just In Time manufacturing. This is the process where a company can keep their inventory low by having the parts they need delivered when needed and not on the books as inventory. In the end this means more parts of everything in trucks moving to the factory more often.
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- 2 votes
#5 - Sat Aug 11, 2007 7:54 AM EDT{"commentId":940151,"authorDomain":"witchofthenorth"}
Exactly - the roads and highways here in Toronto reflect the same thing. So the taxpayers get to bear the cost of warehousing on the highways. As if that wasn't bad enough, the last time I drove on our busiest highway at night, I felt like I was driving next to a train as the entire middle and right lane were trucks bumper-to-bumper. Scary!
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{"commentId":939355,"authorDomain":"b-shaughnessy"}
I know that stretch of road in Newton, MA... it gives me nightmares.
When Eisenhower commissioned the construction of the Interstate system, the engineers that designed it never intended the roads to last forever. Personally, I think we need drastic action, because our infrastructure is simply inadequate for the 21st century. We will always need highways, but they need to be complemented by some sort of train system to move people and freight across this country, because a single bad accident can shut down an entire city for a day.
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- 1 vote
#6 - Sat Aug 11, 2007 11:36 AM EDT{"commentId":940078,"authorDomain":"schnoo"}
Some guys liked big trucks when they were little....and little trucks when they got big.
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- 1 vote
#7 - Sat Aug 11, 2007 7:09 PM EDT{"commentId":940373,"authorDomain":"vikibabbles"}
Well, this is interesting and all, but why in the holy hell is it still the featured story more than 24 hours after it's publishing time? Hello? NV crew? Isn't GW on waving to people from a power boat while on vacation or something? Shouldn't we all be complaining about and/or supporting that notion?
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