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When I wrote for Salon, the FTR (full traffic report) would arrive in my e-mail like the bluebird of low self-esteem. A hit-count list of the previous day's articles, it would range from tens of thousands (say, a cover story on a sex scandal) to a few thousand or less (say, mine). The writers' room in hell has a similar setup. There's nothing to make you question your career goals like discovering that your take on the post-Tina Brown New Yorker was empirically proved to be 10 times less interesting than Jennifer Lopez...
...full use of her arm. Richard Castaldo, whose eight gunshot wounds left him a paraplegic, has spent four months in the hospital and suffered through seven operations, but now he's back at Columbine. Every day a special lift hoists Richard and his black wheelchair into the big yellow Bluebird school bus that can seat 72 passengers but is reserved just for him; Richard plans to graduate with his class in June...
Michael Foale didn't notice last June when the bluebird began to chirp aboard the Mir space station. Ordinarily, anyone in the station's core module could not have missed the sudden trilling. But at the moment, Foale was elsewhere. And he had other things on his mind besides a singing bird...
Since last May there have been 35 adjustments in shuttle bus scheduling, the addition of one more large Bluebird bus and the replacement of three of the five smaller buses with sleeker, handicapped-accessible shuttles, said Smith...
Witt said that in order to support the new schedule, there would be a "significant addition" of drivers. The existing fleet of seven buses will not be increased substantially, although another Bluebird bus will be added this year...