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Roads. Even the 41,369-mile federal Interstate Highway System, which has no equal anywhere, is going to potholes. More than 40% of its mileage has already exceeded its planned 20-year safe life. By 1990, three-fourths of the system will have passed that age. At the moment, 10% (more than 4,000 miles) is considered in need of immediate resurfacing. An additional 30% (12,000-plus miles) is rated in only fair condition, meaning that it is "barely adequate" to handle traffic at the 55-m.p.h. maximum speed. The even older 260,000-mile "primary" network...
Soaring costs of labor and materials have aggravated the road problems. In Georgia, where the state is able to repair and properly maintain only 10% of its 18,000 miles of highways each year, maintenance costs have risen 42% since 1977. Just to put a 1½-in. layer of new asphalt on 2,000 miles of highway costs $60 million. Minnesota Transportation Commissioner Richard P. Braun contends that at present spending levels, the state will not be able to rebuild its 12,000 miles of trunk highways until the year 2354, at least three centuries too late...
Stop. Before proceeding: a test. A kind of measured mile on the long road to high-tech heaven...
...Pong, the first of a long line of video recreations that turned simple games into eye-glazing national obsessions. Atari was a pretty loose place?staff brainstorming sessions were fueled with generous quantities of grass?but even there Jobs did not quite fit in. "His mind kept going a mile a minute," says Al Alcorn, Atari's chief engineer at the time. "The engineers in the lab didn't like him. They thought he was arrogant and brash. Finally, we made an agreement that he come to work late at night...
...Israeli army into southern Lebanon, supposedly with the limited aim of dealing a fast, deadly blow to Palestine Liberation Organization guerrillas who were in a position to shell villages in northern Israel. Had Begin held to his initial, publicly stated objective of removing the P.L.O. from a 28-mile zone along the Israeli-Lebanese border, the invasion would have been hailed at home, and among Israel's remaining friends, as a great success...