Dream Single: Rough ride in the fast lane
Memory lane can be a harrowing journey for Sam Helwer - especially during rush hour. Half a century ago, the now-retired engineer helped build six miles of winding, creekside road from downtown Los Angeles to the old-money suburb of Pasadena.The route young Helwer plotted out with his surveyor's gear was christened the Arroyo Seco Parkway on Dec. 30, 1940, and renamed for Pasadena 37 years later.It was Los Angeles' first freeway, the beginnings of a...
Dream Single: Everything's coming up tulips
A designer of celebrity gardens shares his secrets for a glorious Dutch treat
There's no such thing as too many tulips in Carl Neels' University Park garden. For 30 years he's tucked thousands of bulbs into the earth, following a plan mapped in his imagination to create clusters of compatible colors for about six glorious weeks. And while he could assign the back-breaking task to his retinue of employees, Mr. Neels, a garden designer, prefers to plant each and every tulip bulb himself."I first did this when I was about...
Dream Single: This Day (Nigeria) - AAGM:
Held Hostage By Facts and Figures
From N5, a sachet of pure water now sells for N10, at least in Lagos. But I do not expect it would be different elsewhere. So, the news is, this increase is coming after 15 years or thereabouts, since the Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) necessitated the invention of pure water.My worry now is, President Olusegun Obasanjo may never get to know this. Remember! The price of Kerosene had been higher than that of petrol for five years before he knew. And even after he discovered this...