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...alone. I liked my job. It was within walking distance of my apartment." Her mother gave her the nearly 20-year-old RV that houses Peggy and her dog Fluffy. Wearing tennis shoes and a leather jacket, Peggy says she misses her apartment but enjoys still being in the neighborhood. "I sweep the sidewalk and pick up the trash," she says. "There is a real sense of community here." (See more about the homeless...
...wife's Prius at home. Nearly every time we drive Cassandra's metallic-green Prius, at some point we are either behind or in front of another metallic-green Prius. There are three Priuses on my tiny cul-de-sac. If this brake problem isn't repaired quickly, my neighborhood is about to be jammed up by some ugly Prius-on-Prius violence...
...keep snowing in D.C. until Al Gore cries uncle," Republican Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina wrote on Twitter. But with the snow still falling, locals took advantage of the time off to tromp through the picturesque drifts piling up on mostly vacant streets. In the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, where a Facebook-fueled flash mob engaged in a massive snowball fight on Saturday, residents skied through deserted intersections, shoveled off stoops and walked their dogs - trying, perhaps, to maintain a hint of normalcy in extraordinary circumstances...
...pride, many residents are rankled. "People are ferociously upset about the Village," says Shaw. The spectacle has created a cruel irony: as the Olympic athletes enjoy the good life - free food, spacious rooms - in a taxpayer-financed housing complex, just a few blocks away sits Vancouver's Downtown Eastside neighborhood, site of some of the most acute poverty in North America. Homeless people and drug addicts hole up in back alleys; one church alone shelters 300 people on any given night. The neighborhood also hosts the first supervised heroin-injection location in North America. "For the city to let that...
...special teams has been lackluster. With a failure to capitalize on power-play chances and inconsistency on the penalty kill, it comes as no surprise that Harvard’s third-period rally was not enough to overtake the Huskies, leaving the Crimson in last place amongst its neighborhood rivals...