Churchgoers in all six states recently finished 35 days of praying alongside Interstate 35, but the prayers are still continuing.

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He was heading home on Interstate 35 and nearing Waco Wednesday night when he saw black smoke up ahead to his left.

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Austin is built around one main drag Interstate 35 which invariably gets congested during any main event (Austin City Limits, South by Southwest, UT football) in town.

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In 2007, the collapse of an Interstate 35 bridge in Minneapolis sent more than 100 vehicles into the Mississippi River, killing 13 and injuring another 145.

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The Oklahoma Highway Patrol asked motorists to steer clear of Interstate 35 near Moore to free up lanes for disaster response resources streaming into the area.

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Now, is it possible that this "highway" mentioned in Chapter 35 is actually Interstate 35 that runs through six U.S. states, from southern Texas to northern Minnesota?

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Nuevo Laredo is close to the Interstate 35 corridor, and Juarez has easy access to I-10, a major east-west interstate, and I-25, which runs north to Denver, Colorado.

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It has not yet persuaded the rest of America either that it is in the Sunbelt or that its proximity to Interstate 35 gives it added value as a corridor for trade from Mexico.

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In 25 years, SXSW has mushroomed from a tiny music festival run by the local alt-weekly to a ten-day extravaganza attended by some 49, 000 people that, together with spring-break traffic, causes unholy traffic jams on Interstate 35 into and out of Austin (and has turned those same editors into decidedly wealthy entrepreneurs).

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