Doha outskirts a death knell

Walking on public roads in the outskirts is a death knell. Many young drivers are at the wheel while using mobile phone or eating (not during Ramadaan). They never head for pedestrians, and the road network is like a cob-web. It is everywhere, you cant imagine from which side the demons arrive, and they never use signals. When you want to cross the road, wait at a bumper until they rush, or put your hand on and stop them before you enter the road.
Yesterday, I saw an old gent stopped his car, even not at a bumper, and gesturing a man to cross, that was on Muither Commercial street.

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Engineering wonders light up rural Sri Lanka by Lionel Yodhasinghe K. Jayasena and his fellow villagers of Lunugalahena like many other typical Sri Lankans blamed the politicians for not fulfilling their election pledges, such as providing electricity and motorable road to this rustic village in the foothills of the Sripada Mountain range. However, an engineering wonder lit up 77 houses in the village recently. "Providing electricity was the talk of the town especially during elections but our children wouldn't have been able to switch on a light to do their homework at night had this wonder not taken place," villagers said. Neither Jayasena nor his fellow villagers would have enjoyed the beauty of the cascading waterfalls nor would they have understood the value of the rhythm of babbling brooks around them. But to their surprise, a small dam was built across the village stream, ...

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