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On the surface, Caplan wrote, he and his white neighbors shared a vague, unsettling sense that things would somehow be different, less manageable, less familiar.

Chocolate City

Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove

Yet the same document also includes plans for a thousand new lane-miles of new and widened highways, an investment incompatible not only with the rapid transit system but also with the stated values of the planning authority.

Northern Virginia’s Transportation Authority Proposes a Region-Wide Rapid Transit Network

draft plan

Going for regular walks reduces the risk of heart attack or stroke by 31 percent. An analysis of 655,000 people in 2012 found that being active for just eleven minutes a day after the age of forty yielded 1.8 years of added life expectancy. Being active for an hour or more a day improved life expectancy by 4.2 years.

The Body

Bill Bryson

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