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This network of tunnels will merge and surface near the Fleet Center, crossing the Charles River in an elegant 14-lane, cable-stayed bridge. The bridge will be the widest in the world and, in addition, the first asymmetrical bridge ever built. In its design, Swiss architects tried to evoke the Bunker Hill Monument (though some might question choosing the ugliest monument in Boston to welcome people to the city...
...announced, via his web site, that the release date for "Star Wars: Episode I" would be May 21, 1999. No surprise there --?for months, Hollywood has assumed that the prequel would land around Memorial Day weekend. But intriguingly, Lucas added that the heavily anticipated film would not have the "widest possible release," but would open only in "quality" theaters. "I'm not trying to break any records," said Lucas. "I'm interested in quality presentation, and a positive group experience for everyone who comes to see this film...
Millions in the U.S. believe passionately that their liberty, their safety or both are bound up with the widest possible availability of guns. So 30 years later, guns are still very much with us, murderous little fixtures of the cultural landscape. We live with them as we live with computers or household appliances, but with more difficult consequences--some of them paid in blood. Among the industrial nations, this cultural predicament is ours alone...
...widest shared territory [of the two age groups] is their experience, what it takes in this society in growing and becoming a woman," she said...
...Yardeni says maybe 4%--big discrepancies in an $8 trillion economy that has lately been exceeding all those figures. The difference between 2.5% and 4% growth is $120 billion. That'd put a new car in a few driveways. The knowledge gap is widest when productivity is assessed. We assume that computers increase employee output. But Blinder wonders if we aren't using computers to get the usual amount of work done and then surfing the Net for fun. This is critical because accelerating productivity allows an economy to pick up the pace of growth without stoking inflation. If Blinder...