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A $20 trillion tunnel linking New York and London?

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Plus a hilarious squirrel photo and gift-wrapped meth View in Browser 12.14.24 Winners of the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards, why you shouldn't gift-wrap methamphetamine, plus infrastructure megaprojects around the world.   Here's the latest in travel .   By Maureen O'Hare   🚄 Bridge and tunnel crowd (semakokal/iStockphoto/Getty Images) There's been a whole bunch of international infrastructure projects in the news this week, with a strong focus on digging.   Busy beavers and merry moles have been chattering about resurfaced plans for a  $20 trillion transatlantic tunnel that could theoretically link London and New York in just an hour using vacuum tube technology. That's 3,000 miles of burrowing, mind, which Newsweek estimates could take the best part of a millennium if construction proceeded at the same rate as Europe's Channel Tunnel.   In plans that are actually happening, Norway...