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...other duties, which included loading the baggage of 50 press and 20 traveling staffers onto the luggage truck. I watched over the departure of the all the staff from the hotel, and at 8:20 a.m., when I was sure everyone was gone, I headed to Market Square in downtown Pittsburgh to assist with the event. I helped direct the people though the barricades, filling them in where it would look just right for the photo. A young but expert crowd herder gave me and 15 volunteers orders on directing the crowd, moving barricades and keeping people happy...
When 1st Cav is in the neighborhood, you can hardly miss it. From his headquarters at Camp Victory, a sprawling base 10 miles west of downtown Baghdad, Chiarelli commands seven brigades comprising 29,000 soldiers and several thousand humvees, Bradley vehicles and Abrams tanks. At any given time, several groups of vehicles are on patrol or conducting raids, raising a huge dust cloud and a god-awful din. The base abuts Baghdad's most hostile districts, Khadra, Ghazalia and Abu Ghraib, which makes it a target of almost daily mortar attacks. Those areas are known to harbor al-Qaeda cells...
...groupings like this. An old hotel swimming pool—its walls riddled with bullet holes—sits next to a new luxury hotel along the waterfront. A shelled French Mandate-era apartment complex crumbles next to a modern office building outside of Beirut’s rebuilt downtown...
...annual grandes vacances, or summer break. An artificial beach was laid out next to the river Seine, complete with imported white sand, palm trees and sun loungers, becoming an instant hit with tourists and locals alike. The inspired notion of turning a busy strip of asphalt into a downtown beach has now found another convert?the Dutch city of Rotterdam. Located on the banks of the river Maas at Leuvehaven, Rotterdam's beach is set against a backdrop of high-rises and office blocks in the heart of the action. In addition to volleyball and sunbathing, it hosts everything from...
...unruffled, too. A reflexology session and a Balinese massage?two of the most requested treatments?cost just $15 and $36, respectively. With prices like this, you don't have to be a President to drop by and book a treatment that will make you forget all about Colombo's downtown traffic?at least for a little while...