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Perry, a farm boy from West Texas who studied animal science at Texas A&M University, sees the Trans-Texas Corridor as a way to make his mark by tackling the state's growing congestion. Urban rush-hour drivers were stuck in traffic for an average of 46 hr. in 2002, nearly triple the time in 1982, according to a study conducted by the Texas Transportation Institute. Increasingly, tolls are seen as a way to reduce traffic. "We simply can't afford to build our way out of traffic congestion, so we have to better manage it," says Michael Replogle...
...have outstripped this already by over $5 million. Will Mary be the blockbuster the West End so badly needs? The producers have taken one big gamble - going for a darker vision of Poppins that diminishes the show's family-friendly appeal. (It's a long show, at 2 hr. 50 min.; toddlers are banned, and parents of children under 7 are advised not to bring them.) For those to whom Mary Poppins means Julie Andrews' warm smile - almost everyone, in other words - that could be a problem. But Mackintosh, Schumacher and scriptwriter Julian Fellowes (best known for the films Gosford...
Forget tape: the Everio saves 60 min. of DVD-grade video (up to 5 hr. of lower quality) on a removable 4-GB hard drive. It's also equipped with a 2-megapixel still camera. jvc.com...
...year's best American movie. It's vigorous, gracious, tenderly attentive to Miles' and Jack's immense flaws--a paean to the durability of life's losers, which is to say most of us. This sunny, funny trip of a film would stamp a 2-hr. smile even on Miles' forlorn face...
...life-form, and I stand on a bench on a deck in the dark and talk to 80 people shivering in the cold like boat refugees, and I excoriate and extol and exhort in uplifting cadences about this evil war, the miserable economy that is bringing back the 60-hr. workweek and the folks who don't mind this war so long as their kids don't have to fight it. Afterward we hobnob in the kitchen and enjoy a little solidarity around coffee and fudge bars, but as I drive home, the car wants to head west out across...