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The Google Bus protesters have said that the company should build housing on its campus, but the Mountain View city council has explicitly forbidden Google from doing just that. They’ve argued that it’s to protect the city’s burrowing owl population.
How Burrowing Owls Lead to Vomiting Anarchists (Or SF’s Housing Crisis Explained) – TechCrunch
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Life, in short, just wants to be. But—and here’s an interesting point—for the most part it doesn’t want to be much.
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
For Peñalosa, TransMilenio was a crucial victory. “If, in a democracy, all citizens are equal before the law, then a bus with one hundred passengers should have the right to one hundred times more road space than a car carrying only one person. When a fast-moving bus passes cars stuck in a total traffic jam, it is an unconscious and extremely powerful symbol that shows that democracy is really at work, and it gives a whole new legitimacy to the state and social organization.
Straphanger
Taras Grescoe
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