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The interstate highway system was built to get people from point A to point B as fast as possible. And they knocked… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
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History class was a forty-minute squirm from which I would emerge unscathed by insight. Down the hall in English Lit, though, there… — Nancy Horan Copy Share Image
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