ONEreason whytrafficis so appallinginMexicoCityis that drivers routinely blockothers from crossingroadjunctionsrather thanmiss the chance to edge forwardbefore the lightschange.
For more than 100 years, paper mills were the economic engine of northern New Hampshire, and by the 1970s there were four mills in a 25-mile radius in Coos County, a string of small towns with misty mountain views and moose-crossing road signs.