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...would turn out to be the second to last day tourists would ever be allowed to enter the inner market of Tsukiji (too many visitors near the majority of the world’s raw fish supply is risky), we woke up at five a.m. and crammed into the metro. By 6:30, we had arrived, pushed through the crowds, and entered the central auction area. The fish stared up pitifully, the alleys reeked, the fishermen’s electric carts threatened to run visitors down, my stockings were soaked in fishy ice puddles, and I was giddy. Tsukiji...
...lights. A pedestrian dies every 110 minutes in the United States, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, and there has been an increase in the last few years in pedestrian deaths in Washington and other urban areas across the country, prompting governments in the D.C. metro area to launch a new advertising campaign aimed at increasing pedestrian safety. It is both "edgy and blunt," Branyan says of the radio spots and posters, which depict a violent pedestrian-car collision. The most recent pedestrian fatality in Washington was typical, Branyan says: an elderly woman who was crossing the street...
...back that up. The number of homicides in the area fell from 448 in 2000 to 98 last year. Getting hauled over at as they make their way home at night is the price they pay. "It's fair, it's cool," says Geraldo Duarte, a 43-year old metro worker stopped on his way to a prayer meeting. "It's for our own security...
...played Edith Piaf in La Vie En Rose - nabbed the best actress award that was all but already on Julie Christie's mantelpiece. The upset has British awards-watchers seething and might have left Christie a little peeved, too: on Monday morning she was quoted in the free daily Metro calling the BAFTAs "a night for the media to fill gaps." And the Almost Oscar Goes...
...underground sales of the drug, public health officials fear, and other studies among African women in Cameroon and Ghana, although not as successful, have further bolstered sales. A 2006 study by the Centers for Disease Control found that 7% of men who attended gay pride events in four U.S. metro areas used tenofovir as a prophylactic, while 20% said they knew other gay men who did. A more recent survey of 1,819 gay or bisexual men in California, published in the Journal of AIDS, found a low rate of prophylactic ARV use - less than 1% - but concerns still exist...