For years, rock slides plagued the road, resulting in an average 574 accidents per year from 1998 to 2004.

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They've scored starring roles in the Disney Channel flick Camp Rock, hit the road for a sold-out concert tour and released a chart-topping album--A Little Bit Longer.

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Along the twisting mountain road, huge boulders had rolled down in rock slides.

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In Tajikistan, on the southern fringes of the ex-Soviet Union, 250 shift-workers are slowly bulldozing a 32-kilometre (20-mile) road from Murgab in the Pamir mountains, eastwards across the rock, salt and sand wilderness of no-man's land, towards China.

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In December last year the Lochcarron to Kyle road was closed when 100 tonnes of rock came down.

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"I am very concerned that in addition to all the costs associated with Northern Rock, the government is going down the disastrous road of bailing out the banks and leaving the taxpayer with the liabilities, " he said.

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With Jennifer Aniston as his shrewd girlfriend, who inserts a nipple ring into his chest with great delicacy, and Timothy Spall as a road manager who knows that the lewd world of rock touring is not the only thing in life.

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Backtrack and drive up Steens Loop Road to the mountain's eastern rim, which drops off in a mile-high rock cliff.

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It is made from a blend of crushed rock, rubber and polyurethane, a synthetic plastic that replaces bitumen as the binding agent and allows even bigger pores in the road surface.

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