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Sometime in 1991, Seattle became more than a quintessentially livable city where the coffee was strong, the people were friendly and the plastic was recycled. The unleashing of bands like Nirvana and Pearl Jam beyond the Pacific Northwest transformed Seattle into an adjective inextricably linked to the word sound, a marketable life-style packaged in flannel and devoid of shampoo. What turns a city into a seminal music scene? Minneapolis, Minnesota, the home of proto-alternative rockers like the Replacements and Husker Du, had its moment a few years ago. So did Austin, Texas, ground zero for the Butthole Surfers...
...time: a poky bar in the diplomatic neighborhood, featuring plastic stools and rickety tables. My memory of the entertainment is hazy, but I think it involved someone crooning syrupy ballads while accompanying himself on an acoustic guitar. On a typical Saturday night at D-22, by contrast, the jam-packed crowd sways and screams, with drunken German exchange students moshing alongside long-haired Chinese musicians checking out the competition. A young Chinese woman in tight denim shorts dives from the stage onto the crowd and is passed hand to hand around the room before being unceremoniously dumped onto the floor...
...choke points too. On any given day, about a million cars stream into and out of Manhattan. At any given moment, however, only about 8,000 of them are in operation in the heavily traveled midtown area. Keep those cars moving, and traffic flows smoothly all over the island. Jam them up, and gridlock can spread like ice freezing. "In fact," says urban-planning consultant Sam Schwartz, a former New York traffic commissioner who helped the city prepare for the 1980 transit strike, "in the case of true gridlock, the streets are actually 60% empty. All of the crowding...
...launching his trendy food outposts just as the Russian economy took off again, creating a generation of free-spenders eager to indulge in the new culture of eating out. "The company understands its consumer base very well," says Anastasia Alieva, an analyst at Euromonitor International. "Pancakes with butter, jam or traditional fillings like cheese, ham or mushrooms are offered at affordable prices. But also there are more expensive variants, like pancakes with caviar or smoked fish...
...only one hit before surrendering a go-ahead solo homer in the bottom of the fourth. Later in the fourth, Madick took a line drive off her left leg, her plant leg, so hard that it caromed into left field for a double. Although she worked out of the jam, Madick was never quite the same. But she gritted her teeth and the defense made some nice plays behind her. After Harvard eked out a 2-1 lead in the top of the seventh, Madick had the Pride down to its final strike in the bottom half. A dramatic home...