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Back on the Freedom Trail, you'll move on to Haymarket, Boston's open-air produce and fish market. There vendors sell their in-season fruits and vegetables at wonderfully low prices...
MANAGUA, NICARAGUA: Hundreds of thousands of jubilant Roman Catholics turned out Wednesday to celebrate with Pope John Paul II at an open-air Mass. In a nation that is nearly 80 percent Catholic, the Pope's arrival is considered a blessing. Welcoming him, President Violeta Chamorro, a devout Catholic, said the visit could help heal old wounds in a nation still recovering from a decade-long civil war. "Thanks to divine providence, peace has returned to your country and to all of Central America," the Pope told the crowd. In 1990 elections, Chamorro defeated the leftist Sandinistas, who controlled...
Sarandon will ride in an open-air car with costumed members of the cast of "Morocco 'Round the Clock," the Pudding's 148th production...
...Russian-built cargo plane crashed into the crowded Zomba Zikada open-air market in Zaire's capital, Kinshasa, killing at least 350 people and injuring nearly 500; most of the casualties were women and children. The calamity set a record for the greatest number of fatalities on the ground in an aviation accident...
...over the U.S., the decade of the '90s has seen a rapid reinvention of how the police do their jobs, especially in major cities. A change from squad cars to foot patrolling, a shift to "proactive'' policing that seeks to dissolve problems such as open-air drug marts rather than just rack up arrests, the more frequent establishment of cross-agency task forces to target specific problems such as car theft or drug crime--all are now commonplace. "This decline in crime rates is more than a demographic phenomenon,'' says Jeremy Travis, director of the National Institute of Justice...