"I HAVE DRIVEN IN EVERY DEVELOPED country that drives on the left side of the road," writes Laurence W. Fredrick of the University of Virginia, "but I've never seen an intersection like the one depicted on page 84 ['The Science of Smart Growth,' by Donald D. T. Chen] of your December 2000 issue." Indeed, although smart growth attempts to reverse the harmful effects of sprawl, we inadvertently took that too literally: that photograph (of the 1986 inception of Virginia Beach Boulevard in Virginia Beach, Va.) was reversed, placing drivers on the wrong side of the road. Here it's shown in its correct orientation.

From flopped photographs to traffic congestion to space elevators to a gas that acts like a wave - have a look, won't you, at this column's discussion of December articles.

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