The most ambitious project is the 3, 600-mile Alaskan pipeline, which will run from the North Slope along the Alcan Highway through the Yukon and British Columbia.

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Later that week, we drove north along the famed Pacific Coast Highway to the Getty Villa in Malibu, an offshoot of the Getty Center in Los Angeles that houses ancient Greek and Roman art.

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Restaurants along the highway to Jaffna in the north are mostly army-owned or -run.

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Further north, a string of villages huddles along cliffs reached by a quiet loop off the main highway to the Romanian border.

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