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...increase was a victory for Congressmen from the wide open spaces of the West, where freewheeling constituents feel cooped up by the old limit. As Democrat Pat Williams of Montana explained to his more constricted colleagues, "You can stand on the highway and see the earth curve out at the end, 60 miles of straight stretch, and sometimes you traverse that entire 60 miles and you only pass two cars. My friends, on the way to talk to 20 people in Montana, I run over 15 jackrabbits." Republican Dick Cheney of Wyoming echoed his neighbor: "Our Western rural interstates...
FIVE YEARS in small-town Idaho taught me two things: 1) underage greasers and rednecks will always be able to buy alcohol, and 2) the highway is where they'll drink it. In light of this, the government's connection of highway funds to raising the drinking age always seemed a little sinister to me. This federal blackmail, I figured, must be a plot to accelerate human roadkills--take away stationary place to drink, then provide more highway space on which to go drinking and driving. With natural selection fading out of vogue, the government must have thought this...
Into this spiraling degeneracy infiltrates a mysterious new government-produced drug that gradually draws the book's characters together as it kills off the population. A little more science fiction than highway funds and drinking laws--but also a lot quicker...
...Road salt for winter highway maintenance, parking lot dust, and vehicle exhausts contribute to potentially hazardous materials in the water," said Flaherty's assistant...
...passed, the bill will go into effect on Dec. 31, 1988, when no street or highway drainage under the control of the DPW will be discharged directly into the Cambridge Reservoir or onto any land area within 500 feet thereof, the bill states...