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...ever seen one." Said he: "Instead of the deficit and debt going down, they're going up." His point: while the government is no longer borrowing from Social Security, it is still borrowing heavily from trust funds for Medicare, pensions for military and civilian government employees, highway building and other things. Without those nonpublic borrowings, he contended, the government ran a deficit of $127.8 billion last fiscal year, and the debt, including amounts owed by one part of the government to another, is still rising from $5.6 trillion. Other board members conceded that Hollings' numbers were correct but strongly quarreled...
First the Raiders leave, and now this. The battered civic pride of Los Angeles took yet another hit Tuesday when the American Highway Users Alliance released its list of the 18 worst traffic bottlenecks in the country. The most horrifying place to be stuck during rush hour? The infamous intersection of Interstate 405 and I-10 in Los Angeles, followed by hot spots in Houston, Seattle, Boston and the Washington/Maryland beltway...
Unfortunately, the defense had neglected to talk to the highway patrol officers who had investigated the scene, who testified that they set up the perimeter themselves. The prosecution capitalized on the error, dismissing the Vietnam scenario as a ludicrous ploy, and Johnson got the death sentence. The majority on the Missouri Supreme Court considered the defense's preparation good enough to let the result stand, because their mistake was not the "most likely" reason for the verdict and sentence...
...RELICS What use are postcards in an age of e-mail and cheap long-distance calls? Almost none. Which may be why they're enjoying a moment of higher hipness. Barneys' New York City flagship store opens two new floors this month, with dressing rooms covered in cards from highway rest stops. And Phaidon has just released Boring Postcards, a coffee-table book of British cards featuring roads, old malls and unremarkable views. Groovy, baby...
...Everyone's against church-burning. Everyone's against someone being killed and dragged down a highway. Violence is the extreme in a spectrum," Orfield said...