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That's what they got. Most weeks Turner and Hubbard put on jackets with slogans such as UP WITH HOPE, DOWN WITH DOPE and joined other demonstrators on streets where the heaviest dealing happened. Stansbury got the town council to designate "downtown" Taylor as a historic district, which meant a ban on the public consumption of alcohol. The group even persuaded the Texas National Guard to bulldoze 48 worn-out buildings near the railroad tracks that had become weekend squats for drug dealers and their customers, who used to come in by car and train. Taylor these days is more...
That path too was scouted during that famous field trip. After visiting the battlefield, Newt and his father went downtown, where he saw bomb damage that he assumed was from World War II. He was appalled to learn that it was from 1916, which was 42 years before. "Three times my lifetime ago, people had damaged that town," he marveled, "and they still hadn't found the energy or the resources...
When Dr. Mabel Chen needs a doctor, she goes to see someone at the Arizona Physicians Clinic in downtown Phoenix. Chen, the director of the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS, pronounced access), reads her magazines in the waiting room alongside people who pay no insurance premiums, who can barely afford their generic prescription medications, who perhaps cannot even read the warning labels on a bottle of aspirin. When Sherry Broyles, 23, a single mother of two, needs to see a doctor, she waits alongside the likes of Chen and feels no less worthy of her doctor's attention...
...Kendall to fix dinner for his two daughters and wait for Cynthia, a hospital administrator whom he married two weeks before Amy's abduction. "Hank is one of the most down-to-earth, common-sensical, likable people you would ever meet," says an agent at the Customs building in downtown Miami, where Blair specialized in drug interdiction and supervised 17 agents before he was placed on paid leave. Until his arrest, Blair was best known for helping to recover a 1636 painting by Peter Paul Rubens, stolen from a Spanish museum. That won him Spain's highest civilian honor...
Harvard's offense is one that thrives on outside shooting and consistent defense. The Crimson is shooting over 39 percent from downtown, and the team has already attempted over 100 more three-pointers than its opposition. Sophomore forward Allison Feaster, the team's leading scorer, led the way on Wednesday with a five-for-seven performance from behind the are on route to a 25 point performance...