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Diners leaving Bartley's, pass a sign over the doorway which says, "Thank You/31 Years...
...could be loaded aboard a slave ship bound for America, and looked out across the Atlantic through what the guide called the Door of No Return. Like every other black American who has shared the experience, I wondered if some unknown ancestor of mine had walked through this very doorway, and I could not hold back the tears...
...people trooped across a courtyard and through a door into the dimly lit room. Under Yurovsky's direction the group arranged itself around the head of the family as if for a family snapshot. A few words were spoken, and suddenly the doorway filled with men, 12 of them, bunched in rows of three, a tangle of outstretched arms all holding revolvers. As they opened fire, recalled one executioner, "they were so close to each other that whoever was standing in front got a burn on his wrist from the shots of his neighbor behind." Smoke, screams and blood engulfed...
TWELVE SUMMERS AGO, UNIVERSITY of Arizona astronomer Roger Angel swung by a Tucson pottery shop to pick up some firebricks for a backyard kiln. Then he purchased some glass ovenware at a nearby hardware store. A few days later, he materialized in a graduate student's doorway, brandishing a couple of Pyrex custard dishes melted to a misshapen blob. "We can make telescope mirrors out of this!" Angel exclaimed. Thus began a monumental and quixotic effort to reinvent the central light-gathering surface of the telescope, from its initial design to its final polishing...
Russell Ben-Ali, a Harlem native and crime reporter, was trying to find a woman whose son had shot a police offer the night before. He approached a gray, six-story, hollowedout building where the mother was reported to live. In one doorway, two men were exchanging money, but Russell was smart enough not to stare. Although construction worker were gutting some of the room in the apartment building, fire had already done much of the work...