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' WASTEBOOK 2012
dialogue is "heavy-handedly laced with facts that easily could've been cribbed from the
Wikipedia entry on [climate change] ...In fact, many of the songs (I'm not kidding about
this) sounded like a Wikipedia entry set to music."468
"The audience...spent an evening visibly fighting off sleep," wrote the reviewer.469
"But like Kyoto and subsequent agreements, though ultimately disappointing, there's hope
that it's a work in progress," wrote another.470
36) The streetcar named No Desire - (MO) $35.6 million
Clang, clang, clang goes the money for the trolley.
St. Louis is receiving more than $35 million in federal funds for "an old-fashioned style-
trolley system" that will run on a 2.2-mile line from the Missouri History Museum to the
University City Library.471 The federal funds for the project include a $25 million Federal
Transit Administration Urban Circulator grant, a $3.5 million New Markets Tax Credit, and
$7.1 million in other federal transportation grants.472 473 The federal amount will pay more
than half of the project's $44 million construction cost.474
The president of the Loop Trolley Co., also the president of the History Museum, said the
trolley service "will be both a pleasure and a portent for future development."475 And a
local developer predicts the trolley will be "a source of pride for the metropolitan area."476
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