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...simply can't afford to build our way out of traffic congestion, so we have to better manage it," says Michael Replogle, transportation director of Environmental Defense, a nonprofit group that advocates "time-of-day tolling": tolls that would take effect during rush hours to discourage driving at peak times...
DIED. BILLY JAMES HARGIS, 79, anticommunist "bawl and jump" televangelist; in Tulsa, Okla. He first won attention in 1953 when he released 100,000 balloons with biblical quotations into the Soviet Union, and at his peak he was carried on more than 500 radio and 250 TV stations. But his popularity faltered in the 1970s after his organization, Christian Crusade, was beset by a series of troubles, culminating in allegations--which he denied and which were not proved--that he had been sexually involved with students of both sexes...
...group knew what their audience had been waiting for. The completely improvised set list stuck to the hits, especially heavy on songs from 1988’s Surfer Rosa and 1989’s Doolittle, widely considered their creative peak...
Thompson confounds the group by presenting a piece of “basalt, an igneous rock” that she dreamily relates to the movie Dante’s Peak...
...team’s lava samples and research tools. She jokes that it is the only time that a movie has proved realistic—referencing Pierce Brosnan’s character’s girlfriend’s similar sacrifice in the notoriously awful Dante’s Peak...