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Wyoming, meanwhile, remained the country's last holdout against raising the drinking age when the legislature refused for the third time to increase the minimum from 19 to 21. Wyoming will forfeit more than $11 million in federal highway funds over the next year. But, explains Wyoming Historian T.S. Larson, "it is a tradition that we are a hard-drinking lot, and we don't like people to interfere with that...
...family's long-distance bill has gone down, but somehow the total phone charges have gone way up. And look at the trucking business: the bill was only $500 when I moved a load of furniture from 400 miles away, but I'm scared to be on the same highway with one of those killer rigs...
These days, conversion to metric is just a vaguely unpleasant memory for most consumers. The highway signs are largely gone, and the pumps dole out gas mostly by the gallon again. The few visible monuments to metric conversion include liter bottles of soda and liquor, time-and-temperature signs that * still flash degrees in Celsius, and gram equivalents on food containers...
...were determined to show that they could work together, make policy and lead the nation -- in short, that they deserved to take over the White House after 1988. They made a bravura start, quickly passing a clean-water bill over the President's veto and approving the $88 billion highway bill over another Reagan veto. The Republicans, shell-shocked by the midterm election loss and defensive over the Iran-contra affair, were reduced to the role of helpless spectators...
...weeks later his world was shattered. On a highway near Wilmington, a truck collided with the family station wagon, killing his wife Neilia, 27, and daughter Naomi, 13 months. His two sons, Beau, 3, and Hunter, 2, were critically injured. Rushing back from Washington, where he had been recruiting staff, Biden considered resigning. Instead, his sister Valerie and her husband moved into his house to care for the boys, and Biden began to commute daily between Wilmington and Washington by train, 90 minutes each way. The difficult routine became so much a hallmark of his Senate career that Biden chose...