Whether it's high-speed rail or highway reconstruction, infrastructure projects in the U.S. are often associated with high price tags and lengthy timelines. Perhaps no project captures this better than Boston's Central Artery Tunnel project, more commonly known as the Big Dig. It's the nation's most expensive highway project. And it took more than two decades to plan and build. How can the government more effectively manage infrastructure projects? What lessons can we take away from the decades-long, multi-billion dollar highway project for the future?

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PBS has released details about an internal investigation that found that actor Ben Affleck exerted improper influence by requesting that the show Finding Your Roots hide details of a slave-owning ancestor in his family tree. As a result, PBS has postponed Season 3 and deferred a fourth season until the network is "satisfied that the editorial standards of the series have been successfully raised to a level in which we can have confidence.

Improving the MPPT control algorithm further, BougeRV charge controller can minimize the maximum power point loss rate and loss time, quickly track the maximum power point of the PV array and obtain the maximum energy from solar modules under any conditions; and can increase the ratio of energy utilization in the solar system by 10%-30% compared with a PWM charging method. The limitation function of the charging power and current and reducing charging power function automatically improves the stability which works even connecting oversize PV modules and in high temperature, and increase the professional protection chip for the communication port, further improving the reliability and meeting the different application requirements.

Fox News Channel anchor Bret Baier and his family are safe after being involved in what the news host described as a major car accident while traveling to an airport after taking a ski trip to Montana.

Before Elvis Presley shook his hips and The Beatles made mincemeat of recording milestones, teenage girls swooned when they heard the voice of one man: Frank Sinatra. In fact, Sinatra set the standard rock ‘n’ rollers aimed to top later. When he passed away in 1998, The New York Times itself seemed to swoon with the printing of Stephen Holden’s obituary. It described Sinatra as “a matchless stylist … whose extraordinary voice elevated popular song into an art.

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Modestas Bukauskas scored a unanimous decision win over Tyson Pedro at UFC 284. Pedro and Bukauskas met in the octagon in a light heavyweight clash on the UFC 284 prelims. The 29-year-old Lithuanian stepped in on three weeks’ notice. However, he put up a strong show to snatch a win away from hometown hero Tyson Pedro. “The Baltic Gladiator” made the most of the opportunity by going toe-to-toe with Pedro. The final scorecards read 30-27, 29-28 and 29-28 in favor of the short-notice replacement.

“Storage Wars: Miami” star Kevin Pew tackled and wrestled a gun out of his son’s hands after he allegedly shot and killed a family friend … this according to a police report obtained by TMZ. The story of the shooting surfaced last week, but we've now learned the TV show was the backdrop for the violence. Pew, his son and others were at a viewing party in Pembroke Pines, FL for the 'Storage Wars' spin-off.

GeorgiaCold-case investigators worked for more than 20 years to identify the man who killed nine-year-old Debbie Lynn Randall John and Juanita Randall died in recent years without ever knowing who kidnapped, raped and strangled their daughter after she went across the street from their family’s home north of Atlanta, Georgia, to run an errand in 1972. But authorities never stopped pursuing the truth about nine-year-old Debbie Lynn Randall’s slaying, and this week, their community learned the identity of her killer.