The next time you are stuck in gridlock and cursing your wretched commute, imagine this for some perspective: waking up in the dark each morning to travel on dusty, unpaved roads by Tap-Tap — a brightly colored, converted pickup truck in which you sit, squeezed together with nine other passengers in the flatbed, and tap [...]
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