Other resellers are also going out of business, including Tom Santos, who shuttered his store, MACadam, in January after 16 years.

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Several workers came over and spread the macadam with long rakes until a thick glistening coating covered the wooden planks and they were no longer visible.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Legends'

"Non-infectious vaccines would clearly provide a safeguard against this risk", said Dr Andrew Macadam, a virologist specialising in polio at the National Institute for Biological Standards and Control in Hertfordshire.

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NPR's Alison MacAdam produced this story.

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The local priest, surfacing from a week-long binge, lit beeswax tapers to Innocent of Irkutsk, the saint who in the 1720s had repaired the road to China and was now about to bring civilization to Prigorodnaia in the form of a ribbon of macadam with a freshly painted white stripe down the middle.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Legends'

Barely making a sound, the Mercedes backed and filled and swung past the chase car and started up the dirt spur toward the sprawling wooden dacha at the edge of the village of Prigorodnaia, soon to be connected to the Moscow-Petersburg highway-and the world-by a ribbon of macadam with a freshly painted white stripe down the middle.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Legends'