Last Week Around the -ISTs
- The Waller Creek Tunnel project here in Austin is gaining ground.
- Major scientific breakthrough shows that cloning embryos is much easier than anticipated...
- U.S. clean energy stocks are doing better than the U.S. economy as a whole.
- Is classical music on the comeback?
- Norman Mailer dies in Manhattan at the age of 84.
- Writers Guild of America strike in Hollywood goes into week two...
- We will all have less privacy in the future, says the principal deputy director of national intelligence.
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On the Waller Creek Tunnel:
"Beyond increasing flood safety, the project would also open up a great deal of property to new development in what some envision as Austin's version of San Antonio's Riverwalk -- a shopping and entertainment mecca that would anchor the eastern half of downtown."
awesome! I cannot wait to have a stench-laden, murky, concrete creek lined by crappy businesses.
Seriously. What about that idea to make it into a white-water rafting course? That'd be badass.