A Place So Crowded, Nobody Goes There Anymore
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A plan is being developed to alleviate the growing pressure from pedestrian and vehicle traffic in Times Square.
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The law of supply and demand seems to have been forgotten.
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The seedy commercial strip with the liquor store and carryout deli was once anchored by a pharmacy. A Baptist congregation worships in the neighborhood's former Safeway. The Spic N Span market on the corner closed years ago, and the bakery that perfumed the air with the aroma of fresh bread is now a trash transfer station....
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By Greg Stiles, Mail Tribune, Medford, Ore.  Sep. 20--The little country store on the corner of Lone Pone and Foothill  roads is no more.
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A ride that took theme park visitors "Back to the Future" is about to be relegated to the past.
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Evacuation has been a struggle and an ever-changing odyssey for hundreds of thousands
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HAMBURG -- They closed the cinema and then the disco. The tractors grew scarce and the men grew moody. Claudia Mantzsch's east German hometown seemed to shrink. She wanted to stay but was laid off two weeks after getting her first job. Her boss offered some advice: Flee this place, or become a nurse for the elderly.
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Fewer restaurants than usual are open, making the narrow street appear dimmer. A staff shortage has owners tending bar, and the menus have thinned.
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Centuries-old traditions in Gambell, a village of 700, have been slipping away, as one of the most remote villages on earth finally contends with the modern world.
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The streets in Hong Kong have become even more crowded since the territory was handed over to the People&#39;s Republic of China in 1997 after being ruled by Great Britain for more than 150 years.
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Growing numbers of people are being squeezed out of the housing market, researchers have concluded.
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Thousands have already left the coastal strip because of its social and economic degradation.
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The chain still finds it hard to draw more customers.
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No parking spaces. Crippling traffic jams. Sky-high rents. Is this London, Rome, or Athens? No, it's Bucharest, where communism and capitalism have conspired to make it Europe's most crowded capital.
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As more travelers carry BlackBerrys and hotels install Wi-Fi, the traditional business center is becoming obsolete.
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SUZUKA, Japan It&#39;s an ill typhoon that does no one any good. After the sellout crowd of 160,000 had been cheated of all of the action the previous day when qualifying was canceled, the capacity crowd at Suzuka
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They've been here before, and it's a place they don't want to stay.