Relationships and Going Places
"Bake sales aren't going to do this": States Push to Convert Interstate Highways Into Toll Roads
In 1998, Congress created a pilot program under which up to three states can start collecting tolls on existing interstates to fund improvements on those roads. So far, though, no states have used it. Virginia and Missouri both have federal permission to move ahead with the idea, but neither has the tolls up and running more »
Woman of Note and Her Gallery: Marianne North
Marianne was rare among women of this period – travelling unaccompanied and visiting areas virtually unknown to many Europeans. Marianne North was at her happiest when discovering plants and painting and she spent nearly all her time abroad in the wild, surrounded by the habitats and plants she longed to capture in oil paint more »
Aphoristic Idiocy
You may try with all your might to keep that particular shade of blonde, to stay au courante with fads and the media, to indulge in plastic surgery, to wear trendy clothes and an uplifting bra, to find a terrific hair stylist or wig, but your hands and neck and crow’s feet will always give you away, and you’ll wind up looking like what you are: a sad case of trying to stay too long at the fair. more »
Does Retirement and Marital Status Make a Difference in How Men and Women Help Others?
More single men and women (who were widowed, divorced, or had never married) provided assistance to friends, neighbors, and co-workers than men and women who were still in first marriages or had remarried. more »
