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...Albany St. resident reported to Cambridge Police Department (CPD) that another resident assaulted him with a bottle and took money from his sock while he was resting on the lawn of City Hall. According to the victim, the suspect has a history of abusing...
...folks at the Johnson Space Center in Houston have never much cared for their $225 million lawn ornament. Certainly, it's an impressive-looking thing; measuring nearly 400 ft. from its needly nose to its four stubby fins, it was designed on a scale more commonly associated with buildings than machines. The problem is, it's been decades since this particular machine actually stood to its full height. Instead, it has spent most of its life lying on its side in the withering Houston sun--beached, spent, a triumph less of engineering than of taxidermy...
...million lawn ornament is--or was--a Saturn V rocket, one that was briefly known by the promising designation Apollo 18. Originally built to carry men to the surface of the moon, Apollo 18 was poised to go until the early 1970s, when the U.S. ran out of both the money and the will to make that kind of journey, and the giant missile was ordered to stand down...
Maybe it was just a little misunderstanding, a thing that happens from time to time in every family. Maybe Al Gore really had someplace better to be at the moment Bill Clinton arrived on the South Lawn last Monday morning to announce that the gods had bestowed an extra trillion--with a t--dollars on the U.S. Treasury. Maybe Gore, a serious man who worries about serious things, had to polish the speech he was making that afternoon in Philadelphia on the war against cancer. Maybe the White House had pressed him to try to make the event, and Gore...
...spent three of my high school summers acting in the local theater company and picking up part-time jobs whenever I had the time. I mowed my neighbor's lawn one summer. I spent another July directing Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at a children's theater camp. And I spent the summer after senior year in a mind-numbing job as a cashier at the local supermarket...