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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...public consumption. Apparently the mythmaking machinery was working overtime during the fall of 1980. For one thing, the much heralded marriage was on the rocks and headed for worse. Yoko told a confidant of her plans to divorce her husband after the work on Double Fantasy was completed: "I need to free myself of the Lennon name." Her tender contributions to that album were inspired not by John, as everyone was led to believe, but by a man named Sam Green, her lover of the moment. And Lennon's tales of cozy domesticity in the Dakota, his Manhattan apartment house...
...sense, the interstate system's big, broad freeways invited today's congestion. When the interstates were built, 90% funded by the U.S. Government, most suburbs viewed them as all the highway they would ever need. Coalitions of environmentalists and taxpayers defeated plans for additional major arteries in San Francisco, Boston and other cities in the 1960s and '70s, when they would have been cheaper to build. "Highway expansion was perhaps the first victim of the not-in-my-backyard syndrome. Now we are paying the piper," says Jose Gomez-Ibanez, a professor of public policy and urban planning at Harvard...
Then what can be done to keep traffic moving? Existing highways need to be rebuilt and repaved so that they can carry more volume. The Road Information Program (TRIP), a Washington research group, says federal surveys have estimated that 62% of the 2.1 million miles of paved highways in the U.S. need some form of rehabilitation. In many cases, highways should have extra lanes or wider shoulders so that broken-down or damaged cars, which trigger about 60% of bumper-to-bumper slowdowns, can get out of the way. In the northern suburbs of Los Angeles, planners are studying ways...
...four-lane Ambassador Bridge linking Detroit with Windsor, Ont., which seemed spacious when it opened in 1929, suffers daily backups, pinching the flow of trade between the U.S. and Canada. Federal surveys indicate that 42% of the 573,928 bridges more than 20 ft. long need to be rehabilitated or replaced, at a total cost of more than $50 billion...
...graduates who go into teaching. No program for reviving public education can succeed until better-qualified students are willing to become teachers. One way to accomplish this would be to forgive the college indebtedness of top students who spend three to five years in the public schools. Academic underachievers need not apply. To qualify, students should be in the upper third of their graduating classes and major in subjects that are most in need of able teachers: math, sciences, computer technology and foreign languages. Annual cost: $500 million...