101.   Since then business has boomed in Punjab, shops stay open until late in the evening and the highways are once more safe for long-distance night buses.

102.   Shops remain open until late in the evening and the highways are safe for long-distance night buses.

103.   Six years ago, there was no highway to Singapore, for example.

104.   That highway is virtually under the control of northern warlord Rashid Dostum, an ethnic Uzbek who rules seven northern provinces in Afghanistan.

105.   The desert highway is one of the few ways into Iraq because air travel is banned to Iraq under U.N. sanctions.

106.   The desert highway is one of the few ways into Iraq because of the sanctions that also ban air travel to that country.

107.   The highway is the major north-south highway in the country.

108.   The highway is the same one used by Russian President Vladimir Putin to travel back and forth between the Kremlin and his government dacha.

109.   The highway was dotted with Western fast food chains and businesses.

110.   The eight-lane highways are bare.