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AT the rate new (or rather reconditioned) vehicles are joining the already-heavy traffic, driving in Port Moresby is becoming a nightmare. What used to take 10 minutes can now take an hour or worse.
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SOME people suggest it was time to reintroduce more traffic lights Port Moresby to manage the flow of traffic. Sometime back, National Capital District Governor said most traffic lights proved to be an impediment to smooth flow of traffic. That’s why NCDC opted for roundabouts that allow traffic to flow at any time.
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AND the most annoying part of waiting in a traffic queue is when drivers decide to drive on the footpaths or creating a third lane when there is supposed to be two. We will all get through if there is some patience. We agree with the quote from Governor Powes Parkop in Parliament sometime back about how some drivers think they were born with a driver’s license.
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AVIOPHOBIA, also called aviatophobia, is the fear of flying or being on an airplane while it is in flight. Because air travel is difficult to avoid, this fear can be crippling both professionally as well as personally. While a significant portion of the population experiences anxiety related to air travel, the fear only becomes aviophobia when it significantly interferes with a person’s ability to travel by air.
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CARNEGIE Hall has long been the most famous concert hall in the US. Admired for its beauty and superb acoustics, it was designed in a Neo-Italian Renaissance style by architect William Burnet Tuthill and was endowed by industrialist Andrew Carnegie at the insistence of conductor Walter Damrosch. Pyotr Tchaikovsky was the guest of honour at its opening.
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THE venue was slated for demolition in the 1950s but was saved by a public outcry.
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THE daughter of a Spanish noble, Eugénia married Napoleon III in 1853 and became the empress of France. She took an active role in the politics of the Second Empire, acting as regent when her husband was at war.
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SHE also encouraged French opposition to a Prussian candidate for the Spanish throne in the controversy that precipitated the Franco-Prussian War. Deposed after Napoleon’s defeat and capture, she fled and settled in England.
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QUOTE of the day: Every man is surrounded by a neighbourhood of voluntary spies. – Jane Austen (1775-1817)
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