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Last August, with little fanfare, the University of Texas marked the 40th anniversary of what then was the nation s worst mass shooting.Until Monday s carnage at Virginia Tech, the Aug. 1, 1966, sniping rampage by Charles Whitman from the Austin school s landmark 307-foot tower had remained the deadliest campus shooting in U.S. history.Whitman, 25, a Lake Worth, Fla., native and former university student, opened fire from the 28th-floor observation deck, shooting people on the streets 231 feet below.Sixteen people were killed and another 31 were wounded before police killed him about 90 minutes later.In 2001, a Fort Worth man died of what physicians said were complications from a gunshot wound inflicted that day by Whitman, bringing the death toll to 17. The school marked the tragic anniversary last year with a low-key observance, flying flags on campus at half-staff.Then this past January, university officials added a bronze plaque to a garden near the tower as a memorial to those who died, to those wh
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The oil crisis of the 1970s meant that Americans had to wait in long lines to fill up their cars. But in the Netherlands, the government decided that the best way to conserve fuel was to ban
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