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...engendered, provided a sense of shared goals and common interests. The truest expression of common sacrifice is public investment, which requires that we give up some enjoyment now in order to provide for prosperity for posterity. And the single most important public investment of the postwar era--the Interstate highway system--was conceived and sold to the public as a national security measure...
Debate over Scheme Z has been heating up for almost two years now, ever since state planners added blueprints for the mammoth, 11-tier bridge across the Charles River to their designs for the new Central Artery highway system...
...Gladys P. Gifford, a member of Cambridge Citizens for Livable Neighborhood's Scheme Z taskforce, describing attempts to offset Scheme z--the 11-story highway interchange slated for construction in east Cambridge--with promises of mass transit funds and extra parks...
...driving west with Vernon and two photographers--Ze'ev, a freelancer, and Mike Rondow, from the Knight-Ridder chain--on the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway. the busiest artery in Israel is deserted save for a few military jeeps whose drivers and passengers are dressed in combat-chemical suits. Vernon asks me what to do in case we are attacked on the highway. As if I know. But as a true Harvard son I give him an answer anyway. He then begins to talk about story ideas. I tune him out as my stomach begins to turn...
Just after 7 a.m., demonstrators obstructed traffic on Storrow Drive, a highway which runs along the north side of the Charles River. Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) police arrested about 20 protesters, quickly clearing the way for rushhour commuters...