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She and other lawmakers want Congress and the Obama administration to bolster rules, hire more inspectors and reinvest in the pipeline infrastructure, much of which was laid from the 1950s to the 1970s.

After Garfield was shot in Washington, D.C. (July 2 , 1881, a spur line was laid from the Elberon Railway Station to the porch of Francklyn Cottage, a local residence, where he was taken to recover.

The most exciting story is not in the United States, but East Africa, and it has its roots partly in the 2010 World Cup.* Calestous Juma, a professor of "the practice of international development" at Harvard, recently pointed me to the remarkable history of Seacom, a privately financed (and mostly African-financed) fiber-optic cable that was laid from South Africa to Europe in 2009.

A second line was laid from Dungeness to Boulogne in late October.

Mains electricity arrived on Shapinsay in the 1970s, when an underwater cable was laid from Kirkwall.

A 114 km narrow-gauge railway was laid from Mogadishu to Jowhar.

On the Alaskan side, about 750 miles of track would have to be laid from the strait to Fairbanks.

On the Russian side, 2,000 miles of track would have to be laid from the Baikal-Amur Railroad to the Bering Strait.

An achingly beautiful path has been laid from the west end of the beach, passing a hill thick with parasol pines, cypress and arbutus.

By 1878, tracks were laid from Leangen to the border between Nedre Stjørdal and Øvre Stjørdal (54 km).

In Europe, the typical clutch of five six eggs is laid between March and June, but in Japan three five eggs are laid from May to July.