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...dispersed reporters to all corners of the square. Fueled by caffeine, they followed, hour by hour, those people whose eyes are open when most of us are buried under our duvets or mountains of homework. From an all-night van driver to the volunteers at a homeless shelter, from the cashier at CVS to peer counselors waiting by the phone, all our subjects had one thing in common: come morning, they were tired...
From the moment we step onto the red-and-blue trolley car, Ann, our guide, begins to whet our appetites. Between the required recitations of chocolate factoids, the former school-bus driver jokes with passengers in a grandmotherly fashion and regales us with descriptions of her favorite chocolate concoctions. The statistics and dates tend to slide from my mind, replaced by thoughts of Ann’s homemade chocolate ice cream and other wholesome goodies...
...death toll from last Friday's subway bombing could have been much higher but for the heroics of the train's driver, Vladimir Gorelov, who slammed on the brakes and contacted engineers to shut the power off so that people could get out of the train without risking electrocution. Some 500 people escaped. Despite the darkness, fire and the acrid smoke, witnesses said passengers were remarkably calm...
...next year's election to choose Khatami's successor. But even before their boycott, the reformists were bracing for a poor showing in the voting because of widespread public disillusionment over the failure of reform. After plastering his vehicle with pro-Khatami posters three years ago, Tehran taxi driver Arash Khaqani, 27, endured a beating by hard-line thugs. Now, he says, "I wouldn't support anyone's campaign so enthusiastically." In fact, he is not planning to vote...
...standing in front of Apathy, an immense 8-m by 6-m work showing a skeletal centaur-like figure leaping across a grease-streaked backdrop. "I was in the Mexican jungle in 1986 and I came across a truck with this big tarp on it and I offered the driver $70 for it - that's what I had in my pocket - and we took it off the truck and we strung it up between two tall bamboo trees and held it taut with the help of two smaller palm trees and that's how I painted it in the jungle...