Word: cabs
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...While I was in Bir al-Abed, the Israelis dropped a couple of small bombs about 500 yards away, on the next block. They sent gray plumes into the air and filled my nose with the smell of cordite and dust. The cab driver who drove us there, Ahmad Hammoud, 40, didn't even flinch. He's from the neighborhood and was more concerned with the fate of his family. "I got my family out on the first day of the strikes," he said. But he stayed. "I thought it was wrong to leave because if we all left...
Elsewhere the phenomenon is familiar, if not as widespread as in Chicago. In Somerville, Mass., Mother Genevieve of the Little Sisters of the Poor says old people sometimes get into a cab and give the driver the address of a home they lived in many years before. In 1979 Phyllis Murphy, 72, who lived in a nursing home in Hyannis, Mass., filed suit against Governor Edward King, demanding state support for old people who want to live outside such homes. "There's no privacy," she said. "Somebody's running in your room one minute to mop the floors...
...just want to wake up and have everything back like it was. But you can't wake up." Jessi remembers dark, bearded faces and words she could not understand, and the clattering sound of the AK-47 and the deafening crack of the American assault rifles in the cab of the humvee as Dowdy, Sergeant George Buggs and Specialist Edward Anguiano returned fire...
...sycamore-lined streets to my favorite hole-in-the-wall eatery, Jishi, on Tianping Road. Adventurous eaters can dig their chopsticks into Jishi's signature braised fish head nestled in deep-fried scallions. Desserts and after-dinner drinks aren't the strong suit of Chinese cuisine, so grab a cab across the Huangpu River to Cloud 9, the Grand Hyatt's 87th-floor bar, whose superlative status as the highest drinking establishment in the world perfectly captures the city's lofty ambitions...
...sycamore-lined streets to my favorite hole-in-the-wall eatery, Jishi, on Tianping Road. Adventurous eaters can dig their chopsticks into Jishi's signature braised fish head nestled in deep-fried scallions. Desserts and after-dinner drinks aren't the strong suit of Chinese cuisine, so grab a cab across the Huangpu River to Cloud 9, the Grand Hyatt's 87th-floor bar, whose superlative status as the highest drinking establishment in the world perfectly captures the city's lofty ambitions...