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Finally. After all these years, we know what drove Willy Wonka to his career as a master chocolatier; it was all his father's fault. Dad was a maniacal dentist who completely forbade candy...
...George Psaradakis, 49, drove a No. 30 double-decker red bus through the streets of London last Thursday, there were signs that something was wrong. The city's traffic--never easy--was in a state of chaos. Thousands of commuters had left Underground train stations and were milling about the streets looking for alternative ways to get to work. Few of them had any idea of the scale of the devastation below: moments before, three bombs had gone off in the space of a minute on London's Underground railway. Psaradakis, whose bus was packed, had been forced to divert...
...mail that “when I got to the [Finsbury Park] station there was an announcement that it was [closed] and that we should take the buses....At the time I thought it was only my tube station that was closed but as the bus drove through north and central London I saw hundreds of people waiting at the stops so I realized something else was going...
Morgan and my brother moved in with my mom a few months ago; the relocation meant that pseudo-Morgan needed a new room and a new elementary school—both of which turned out to be my formers. Last week, I drove her to her first piano lesson from my old piano teacher, and she’s using one of my old softball gloves for summer T-ball. This all has one conspicuous consequence: she is quickly replacing me, pushing my legacy to the margins of my family’s memory...
...song itself dates back to 1948, when Boston mayoral candidate Walter A. O’Brien, who advocated streamlining the T’s fare system, commissioned the song and had it played from a truck that drove in circles around the city...