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Eslho tsei in control: Casey Clausen to have hand in play calling Mini toiM The climb raW'iTiiTi'inr Ruby latest venture hinges on rezoning Mother daughter tackle a mountain I msrnm Look for your game card In News-Sentinel and win your share of $30000 F) The Knoxville News-Sentinel 1 STREET BEAT traffic conditions In the Knoxville' area Finding UT boss will not be easy consultant says I-- sitting provosts would expect by the time we're done we will have talked to some (candidates who are) purported to be the best fadtvhfaals toe country Funk said to make sure we talk to all More roadsmore traffic cycle has roots in past i Financial woes will make hunt tougher By David Keim Nm-SantM staff writer The first question Bill Funk expects from the people hell recruit fir the presidency of the University of Tkmessee is the same question he expects on any search: Why did the old president leave? dose on its heels will come questions about the univeratyyfr financial health and the condition of state revenues smd Funk a veteran search consultant hired to UT find its new leaden key questions don't have answers at ITU but Funk is toe system attract apod candidates tomk the University of Tfen-neesee is one of toe major presidential opportunities in the Funk said from his home in Tessa Tt has such an impact on the entire state and it has the focus of toe entire stata It should be quite attractive to a number of outstanding sitting presidents and Powerball hopefuls set sights on $295 million Nmm-Santtrwl Me photo With several more lanes elevated flyovers improved signage and of course choking traffic Interstate 40 today right hardy resembles Its 1967 self above Wnne taken from roughly the same spot looking east near downtown ttie angles of the pictures dffler because the 1967 photograph was shot from a pedestrian bridge that Knked a divided neighborhood while the current view was taken from the Western Avenue The pedestrian bridge and the south of the Interstate have since been removed following Interstate expansion NawfrSantM pinto by 8aul town Funk to being paid $90000 i expenses in part because he a reputation as a recruiter able to access the country most qualified administrators HeU also help the search committee through the interview and selection process got in BQl Funk a guy who really knows this world (of lihwmJiiMtiiii administration) aid Robert Atwell president emeritus of toe American Council izationfortiie nation's ccflegBS and universities a real Funk 53 has been a recruiter fir two decades farindhy about 10 yean almost exdusrvdy in higher education He conducted 10 of toe last 11 presidential searches in the Big 10 In recent Funk has recruited chancel-at Vanderbilt or Purdue Budmell Ptoase see UT page A12 'I Sxteen months after winning the lottery Melvin Rhodes enjoys his wealth with family and frfendaBI lottery madimes cranked out tickets at an averageof one a minute lottery aM just hope someone wins said Debda Thompson a cashier at a U-Stop Conremence Sup in Lincoln Neh can't done besides Bawer-fget off work I just go to bed Fm too tired to do any- Main Street in Efand du Lac Wis whidi has mined a reputation as a Tdtrade MileT fir produriug at least five big winners since 1991 Ma Rm Greeny Store set iq a ticket machine outside fir drive-up service fto-ple started lining up at 6 am The biggest Rjwerball jackpot ever was toe $2957 million won to 1998 by a group of factory workers to Ohto The richest lottery prize fa US histoy was the $363 million Big Game jackpot won last year by two pliyere to Sinaisi 1 1 I reruns keep show alive Mghbartnod" may be aaen at 3 pjtL Monday rough Friday on WSJK-TX Chamalnd WKOP-TX ChamaMfi for one-third of the i and the wide swath of an i break the city the mayor i And while the state touted the longterm vehicle capacity of their design Dempster was sure a simple boulevard could do the job Prize is third highest in US lottery history Py lyUli ygHfgn DES MOINES Iowa Rjwbp-ball Lottery ticket machines got a workout Saturday as near-record numbers of people bought chances fir a $296 unwell jackpot win toe Hobbs in Sioux FhUs SJ1 The jackpot fin: Saturday nightfc mawing in Des Moines the host of toe lotteay that is played in 21 states and the District of Columbia was toe second-highest in IfowerbaU histmy and the toird-laraBst lottery jackpot ever in toe United States The winning Rjwaball numbers were 8-17-22-42-47 and RnmbaQ 2L RrwerinU offirials immediately announce whether any winning tickets were sold Ticket rales in Iowa were ex-to top the sales figure on day when the jackpot hit $200 million and the stateb L600 was i i to finish the Magnolia Avenue 1 which boasted the latest modem highway design But without traffic lights and intersections the mayor worried that the high-speed short cut would be a nail in the coffin for local businesses The $22 million downtown connector only reached as far as Fbrt went nowhere It still lacked its final leg west to Kingston Pike and Dempster argued that it should be a more conventional thoroughfare giving stare owners a better ounce to grab passing -motorists with road-front visibility will pmm Besides Knoxville was committed Victor Ashe still hasn't flinched in the midst of his own battle with the state Department of Transportation over the design for the final leg of the South Knoxville Boulevard He considers the plan to bypass downtown with an interstate-grade shortcut to Chapman Highway as overkill The modem existing stretch along Please see STREET page A10 By Hayes Hickman Nevw-Sentlnal staff writer In the past half-century of interstate evolution the roads have changed but the arguments over where and how to build them have remained the same because one fact has always been understood roads bring development But thin cause-and-efiect also brings a revolving rode of more traffic the need fir bigger roads and eventually new roedsTwbether the plans run north-south or east-west this continued progress seems to 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A3 There is no goodbye to the last original mow of "Mister Neighborhood" And a 33-year run faafs just the way Red Rogers wanted it The very next week toe 1 program will come on (in reruns) and be saying he said "For yean we thought be developing this library ''l 2001 7ha KnimNa NmaeanlkMl Co 35n6 77 II 49 I.