Word: alleys
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...taken the heroin problem off the front pages. "People think it's all O.K., but that's not the case." A few steps from his office, behind a main street crammed with busy restaurants and small retailers, two chairs have been put in a grim but secluded dead-end alley. The spot is a favorite with local addicts, whose used syringes litter the ground. Tregear and his colleagues help some of them into treatment, despite long waiting lists, and then back to school or work. In the past six months, the outreach team has counted about 70 new users...
...booby-trapped artillery shell detonated shortly before midnight. In the roar and smoke, bodies ripped apart. Suddenly the nine-man foot patrol from Task Force 1/9, composed of infantrymen and cavalry troopers, was down to five, alone, in a darkened Baghdad alley and cut off from help. One soldier was dead. Three others lay bleeding but still alive as fire from AK-47s rained down on the scrambling troopers. Company commander Captain Thomas Foley hollered orders above the din, desperately trying to stave off the attack while getting some kind of aid to his wounded men. One had lost...
...fond of order and rules and schedules. It's just like my old Sunnyvale School, a quiet pond of books and pen and paper. But a parent stands on a precipice. Adolescence looms ahead, which nowadays can begin at around the age of 8. Drug dealers lurk in the alley; nihilist rock 'n' roll wafts up from the storm sewer; the culture of covetousness is everywhere...
...hide behind but Thorne was caught in the middle of the street and he curled up in the shadow of a piece of concrete. The bullets made cracking sounds when they hit the wall. After a pause in the firing a group of Mahdi fighters in a nearby alley told us to come closer and take cover with them. From that street corner, it was a five minute walk to Moqtada Sadr's office and the center of Najaf. Half a dozen Mahdi Army fighters walked with us. Long rows of armed young men we passed held their weapons...
...officer en route to an alarm discovered two individuals in the alley behind Apley Court. After a field interview, the individuals were identified, and a small amount of what is thought to be marijuana was confiscated. The officer issued a trespass warning and sent the individuals on their...