Word: midday
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...just about midday on a busy street in Hanoi last week, a three-car convoy pulled up to the sidewalk that runs along Truc Bach Lake and disgorged a small group of Americans. Leading the pack was a tour guide with a head of white hair, a stiff gait and enormous Ray-Ban sunglasses. "Here it is, ladies and gentlemen!" John McCain announced as he paced over to the modest concrete monument that commemorates the day in October 1967 when a Vietnamese missile shot down his plane and he was pulled from the lake by an irate mob. And unless...
...regulars are gathered around the bar at Our Place, drinking cold colas to slake the Mojave Desert's midday parch, when somebody finally brings up the subject on everyone's mind: Erin Brockovich. "I remember the night the real Erin Brockovich walked in here," recalls bartender Lynn Tindell. "She was strutting her stuff. She knew all the guys were looking at her." Brockovich, as anyone who has seen the movie knows, was the sexy single mom who helped the residents of Hinkley, Calif., win a record $333 million settlement against Pacific Gas & Electric for contaminating their well water with toxic...
...surrounded by a chain-link fence, serves 2,200 children. More than three-quarters are Latino, nearly a fifth are Korean--and 92% are poor enough to qualify for free lunch. A third of Hobart's teachers lack certification. A few weeks ago, the school was locked down at midday when a taxi driver was shot nearby...
...next celebrated Mass in Manger Square where, by prior negotiation, the muezzin of the mosque next door shortened his call to midday prayers so as not to disrupt the Pope too much. Still, the Pontiff seemed a bit startled when, smack between his homily and the rest of the service, the amplified Allahu Akbar (God is great) rang out. He then enjoyed his brief respite in the grotto before accompanying Arafat, who sometimes held his hand, to the nearby Deheisha refugee camp...