Steve Erickson

For half a century, the Sunset Strip was the asphalt timeline of American popular music. My most distinct memory, from more years ago than I'll confess to, is waiting for a table at the Olde World, which occupied a wedge of territory at Sunset and Holloway Drive, where the daiquiris became more vicious the longer you sat in the sun.

American Novelist

Charles Lindbergh

How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?

American Aviator

Julian Edelman

It's been a privilege to get to watch one of sports greatest athletes prepare and get to play with him; honestly... it's a dream. I remember being in eighth grade saying, 'I'm Tom Brady,' on the asphalt at recess, you know, playing football.

American Athlete

A street is a story in asphalt - so it's a paradox that the streets are the one place where the movies play fast and loose with continuity, something to which L.A. streets lend themselves as naturally as does the city's psyche.

Evel Knievel

Those extreme-sports kids today are good, but they have it easy. Try falling off of a motorcycle going 70 or 80 miles per hour on asphalt. Believe me, nothing equals it.

American Entertainer

Cale Yarborough

If he'd just crowded me down to the side of the asphalt, I'd have been OK. But when he ran me completely off the racetrack, I lost it.

American Celebrity

Ilya Ehrenburg

You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.

Ukrainian Writer

Forrest Griffin

I've framed houses, worked on an asphalt crew, I was a cop, a lifeguard.

Asphalt is commonly described as black or dark grey, emphasizing its typical appearance.

Color Descriptor

Asphalt can get very hot in the sun, often used to describe scorching summer surfaces.

Temperature Sensitive

Asphalt can metaphorically signify a beginning or path to progress, as roads often do.

Metaphorical Use

Asphalt is primarily a professional jargon in construction and civil engineering.

Construction Activity

Discussions around asphalting often involve the durability and lifespan of the surface.

Durability Concern

Mention of asphalting may indicate maintenance or renewal of existing infrastructure.

Maintenance Context

 but we have a solution. Here you see actually how the damage appears in this material. It's a porous asphalt, like I said, so you have only a small amount of binder between the stones. Due to weathering, due to U.V. light, due to oxidation, this binder, this bitumen, the glue between the aggregates is going to shrink,

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 How is it that this organism can be so large, and yet be one cell wall thick, whereas we have five or six skin layers that protect us? The mycelium, in the right conditions, produces a mushroom -- it bursts through with such ferocity that it can break asphalt. We were involved with several experiments.

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 and said can you make roads out of solar panels you know that you know if I can figure out a way to protect the solar cells it just might work it's got I've had the same traction as asphalt has to be strong enough to support a fully loaded semi truck shatterproof fireproof the roads are

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 where technology is helping to significantly reduce residents' water footprint. - The one thing about this project, what makes it real unique, is that we had the opportunity to have critical mass. You know, to take three acres of asphalt and bring on a million square feet

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 I was struggling, tired and dehydrated, as I could feel the heat emanating from the asphalt, measuring almost 98 degrees. I was near the halfway point of the bike portion of one of the most prestigious, longest, single-day endurance race events in the world.

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 asphalt to surround the schools themselves and by presenting a really strong economic case they convinced the LA government that replacing that asphalt with trees and other greenery that the schools themselves would save the system more on energy than they

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 But he couldn't have done his job without the road. So I would thank the people who paved the road. And then I would thank the people who made the asphalt for the pavement. And I came to realize that my coffee, like so much else in the world,

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 Glacial till provides fertile soil for growing crops. And, deposits of sand and gravel are used to make concrete and asphalt. Many rivers are fed by the melting ice of glaciers. The most important resource provided

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 Those have such a wide turning radius, that we have to deploy an enormous amount of pavement, of asphalt, to accommodate them. Or take the critically important wheelchair.

How we can design...

 forward three short years to today and I want you to come and visit our school so walk past the cracked asphalt parking lot and into our old barrel factory