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...only links between populated areas, have been all but washed away. In Northern California, Interstate 5, US 50, I-80 and US 101 have all been closed, in some places by washouts as much as 100 feet wide. In Idaho, US 95, the state's only north-south roadway, has been blocked by mudslides, forcing motorists to detour through Oregon and Washington. Thursday saw the worst flooding so far, as the Truckee River roared through downtown Reno, closing government offices, the Reno-Tahoe International Airport and many casinos for the first time in memory. In Washington, floods and mudslides continue...
...this point I don't care who won the elections. I am glad that I don't have to listen to all the commercials on the radio and television anymore. Now if the people who put up all the campaign signs in front of their houses and along the roadway would take them down, the nation would be prettier. If the candidates put all the money spent on the campaign toward the national debt, the nation would be well on its way to being debt free. JOANNA REAGAN Pepperell, Massachusetts...
Jessica Dubroff's wings may have been frosted with ice, and she had no joy of flight on her last ride. She took off in a cold rain and died when her single-engine Cessna 177B nose-dived onto the black tar of a suburban roadway. But her senseless death last week could also be attributed to a modern kind of hubris. For Jessica was urged on by overzealous parents, by a media drawn to a natural human-interest story and by a willfully blind Federal Aviation Administration, which permitted a 4-ft. 2-in., 55-lb. seven-year...
...federal funds paying for the 7.5 miles of roadway (3.5 of which are underground) have been guaranteed by a long series of colorful Congressional benefactors. The list includes Edward Kennedy '54-'56, the senior senator from Massachusetts, former House Rules Committee Chair J. Joseph Moakley of South Boston and former Speaker of the House, the late Thomas "Tip" O'Neill of Cambridge. In the Bay State, these are noble men who have served the interests of their community well. Many say The Big Dig was Tip O'Neill's final salute, his going away present...
Said Chomsky: "Any time there is an Israeli atrocity [against Palestinians] they can impose curfew to deter any Palestinian reaction." He also said that there are now huge roadway construction programs underway in the West Bank so that Israelis will continue to be able to drive around the region without encountering Palestinians...