Next time you drive by a road crew fixing up your local highway, you can thank a government accounting gimmick known as "pension smoothing." It's one of the biggest rabbits Congress has pulled out ...

Smoothing Traffic's Rough Edges. May 20, 2003 at 1:00 a.m. EDT. Drivers who speed, tailgate, change lanes recklessly or run red lights may want to abandon those habits this summer when law ...