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...nature accumulated by the doors outside the church. Families prayed together, others lined up in a long queue that slowly snaked around the church to get a brief moment to touch the altar where the venerated statue is kept. I saw four young girls kneel and walk the entire length of the church on their knees to pray at the altar...
...Length of the run (in years) of the legendary CBGB & OMFUG—"Country Bluegrass Blues and Other Music For Uplifting Gormandizers"—at Bowery and Bleecker Streets. The club was founded in 1973, and soon left behind its folksy name to become the home of a new kind of music, called punk rock, that was played in many clubs near Bowery Street by bands like New York natives The Ramones. It closed...
Highlight Reel: 1. Texting drivers could prompt a "crash epidemic": Truck drivers were 23.2 times more likely to get into a crash or near crash than drivers who weren't distracted. This correlates to the length of time a texting driver's eyes were off the road - almost five seconds, long enough to cover a football field at highway speeds. Given the increasing popularity of texting - it's grown tenfold in the last three years, by one count - it could swiftly become an enormous peril to road safety...
...houses 35 young men. Their families pay about $250 a month for room, board and religious instruction centered on their role in God's plan to populate the occupied area with Jews. The settlement's spiritual leader, Arie Lipo, 35, sporting a 9-inch ginger beard and an ankle-length white gown, tells TIME he battled Israeli solders during the last evacuation, but he talks softly of a kind of peace. "We build small heavens here," he says. "We are the people of the Bible. If Obama fights what God has done in bringing the people of the Bible here...
...half-mile radius. Besides, being immobile in Los Angeles didn't bother me. I was used to it. I'm one of the few people over 14 and under 65 who's actually set foot on the "subway," a Metro-run underground train that is approximately one-twentieth the length of any other metropolitan rail system in America. Starting at age 16, I worked three summers in L.A. without a license, which meant daily hour-and-a-half-long commutes (and that's just one-way). On subsequent visits home, having to beg for a car ride from a friend...