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Life In The Middle Of The Freeway

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan

15 May 2006 - 6:00am

In the hostile median of Los Angeles' Santa Monica Freeway, a diverse landscape thrives against all odds.

"There is something delightful about whizzing down the freeway at 70 mph (or better yet, stuck at a bumper-to-bumper pace) and noticing that on a stretch of pavement not meant for carbon-based life forms, plants are reaching with tender green shoots toward the sky, scrawny little flowers are blooming and small stands of grasses are blowing about as if they were miniature Kansas cornfields."

Full Story: A natural gas along the freeway.
Source: , May 13, 2006
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