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...middle of the Bay State’s best-known thoroughfare—cars whizzing past on both sides, their drivers tossing cigarette butts and empty Pringles cans out their open windows—is one of the sad neglected spaces that permeate America’s highways: the median of the Pike. The meager, desolate territory may be known to few and loved by none—but if one turnpike administrator has his way, all that could change...
...Massachusetts Turnpike Authority Chair Matthew J. Amorello, the sun might soon rise over a new kind of median, a median defined not by Jersey barriers or Jersey-esque patches of exhaust-wilted grass, but by a sleek, superfast monorail propelled from Springfield to Boston by powerful electromagnets. Commuters would still commute on either side in the familiar car lanes, but they would be the main event no longer—the median’s proud iron steed would have stolen their thunder. A high-tech, vaguely Blade Runner-flavored cream center would have at last filled the transportational Twinkie...
...such an eighth wonder to this world. Single-serving Learjets for each commuter would be cool, too, but they’re just not a feasible way to address Massachusetts’ rush-hour crunch. As cleverly right-under-our-noses a location as the Pike’s median may seem, it is hardly ideal in practical terms—a magnetic express along the same route as the existing highway would be of little use without branches connecting to suburban communities, and those branches would take yet more land and money. Even worse, the Pike delays that would...
...Family Foundation released the results of a survey of 1,065 parents with children ages 6 months to 6 years. The stunning finding is that 43% of the kids age 2 and younger watched TV on a typical day and that 26% had a TV in their room. The median amount of time spent watching: two hours...
...also said that the University was right to put such a premium on the value of its money managers, noting that if the endowment had produced median returns over the last 10 years, the University would have $9.6 billion less...