Word: downtown
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Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison read the first chapter of her new novel,Paradise,to a packed audience which included about 50 Harvard students yesterday in downtown Boston's Faneuil Hall...
AUCKLAND, New Zealand: The light at the end of Auckland's dark tunnel just went out: The blackout, 12 days old, will last another 10 weeks. Attempts to repair two of the massive power cables feeding downtown Auckland have failed, and the city will have to rely on generator power (about 10 percent) until new cables can be run into town by Auckland city utility Mercury Energy...
With each train arriving at the Arlington T station in downtown Boston, alternating waves of high school students clad in T-shirts and jeans and Harvard first-years in black tie and ballgown finery flooded into the lavish mezzanine of the Park Plaza Hotel Saturday night...
...Fukuda's war room, Room 58 of the health department's downtown headquarters, a large whiteboard listed all the cases and tracked their medical progress. A big downward arrow meant death. With new urgency, Fukuda and the CDC hunted the sources of infection, collecting 3,000 blood samples and helping question some 2,500 people...
...country bus station counts out change with an abacus. The driver of a Highland Express cab (working 24-hr. shifts) is a robust woman with a basket of huge apples by her side. Nagano is a world of deep, ancestral sounds: the traditional melody of a potato seller audible downtown; the mournful strains of an enka ballad (often known as Japanese country-and-western) in a tiny noodle shop; the martial tunes that reverberate around the old battlefield near the Olympic Village...