Word: busful
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...their cities more livable. "We are quite behind when it comes to fundamental etiquette," concedes Chen Zhenmin, deputy director of the Shanghai Spiritual Civilization Office. In Shanghai, China's most cosmopolitan city, local leaders have unveiled a campaign called "Be a Lovely Shanghainese" that instructs citizens to give up bus seats to the elderly, urinate directly into the toilet and refrain from stealing plants from parks. The campaign has recruited 800,000 volunteers to help direct Shanghai's chaotic traffic and asks civil servants not to dye their hair exotic shades like red, green or blue...
...movie complex. That's it. The idea is to create just enough diversion so we stay where we are. The message is, Don't come in to mix with the people in the city centers. That's what the police tell you when they stop you on a bus coming into town: "You have no business in the center? Then you have no reason to be there. Go back where you belong...
...feds via his cell phone. The viewer curses (aloud) his stupidity and that of the lawyer—also on the lam—he calls for advice, as they reveal their locations and play right into the baddies’ hands. But then, after the agents board a bus to find an abandoned cell phone, and the nephew gets off a different bus in safety, we are shown the text message he received from the lawyer right after hanging up, telling him to ditch the phone and divulging her real whereabouts. Awesome. And then, if you look hard enough...
...Parks' defiance led immediately to a 381-day bus boycott?drum majored by a 26-year-old Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?and ultimately to a nine-year march culminating in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which forced red states to comply with the Brown v. Board of Education decision rendered a decade earlier. Her righteous indignation literally changed the world. Long before the Internet, the mother of the civil rights movement cast her global net from the long walk to freedom of Nelson Mandela and black South Africans to the temerity of Chinese students who, against tanks...
...both places were packed with families of all faiths buying gifts, fireworks and fairy lights on the last shopping day before the Hindu festival of Diwali, the Festival of Light. Sixteen died in Paharganj, 39 in Sarojini Nagar. A third explosion, on a bus in Okhla, south Delhi, reportedly killed three. "I saw one child, not more than six months old, its body split by the blast," said Paharganj handicrafts store-owner Neeraj Chawla. "And there was a family of shoppers. All dead, a mother and her children, lying on the ground with their arms apart. That...