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King Jigme's goal, he says, is to increase the "gross national happiness, " and to that end he spends weeks traveling his Himalayan realm, in a Toyota Land Cruiser until the roads end and then on horseback or by foot, inquiring about what it would take to make people content.
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But we hope to clear tonnes of garbage piled on the roads by the end of Sunday.
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Certainly it would make sense to plan infrastructure projects at a higher level, to avoid building hospitals with the same specialisation in adjacent regencies, say, or having new roads end abruptly at the city limits.
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At the mundane end of the spectrum, they record cars speeding on roads near schools or snap photos of derelict public parks, then upload them to their community website.
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Some people treat the drive up the winding roads that lead north, to the nearby Swiss border and Alpine end of Lake Como, as a further exercise in gawping.
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Ironically in the end, the man who fought ascending mountainous roads with his legs, and the man who fought cancer with all his heart and soul, decided not to wage further battle in a fight to clear his name against accusations of Performance Enhancing Drug (PED) use dating back to 1998.
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It seems more efficient to follow in the footsteps of others rather than to wander down dead end roads.
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While West has observed a positive power law in that the demand for roads and gas stations also decline as density increases, sooner or later that has to end.
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By the end of 2010 there could be as many as 300, 000 Tata Nanos on India's roads.
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