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Meanwhile, regular folks have awkwardly adapted to the presence of a sniper intheir community. After a 13-year-old boy was shot in the stomach walking into school on Oct. 7, events were summarily canceled: field trips, all outdoor school sporting events, four homecoming celebrations, even SAT exams. Park rangers have been spotted monitoring soccer fields--the de facto town squares for Montgomery County's affluent families. From the backseat of a Fairfax, Va., woman's car, a 5-year-old who has been newly forbidden from riding his bike asks, "Mommy, will it hurt if I get shot...
...daughter, watching the live bulletin on TV, recognized the American flags in the back window of his cab and rushed with her mother to the scene, where they identified him. Two miles away, unaware of the rippling circle of violence, Sarah Ramos was killed while sitting on a park bench, waiting for a ride. A witness reported seeing a white van with two occupants screech out of the area. Police began frantically stopping white vans, but a little more than an hour later, Lori Lewis Rivera was struck down while vacuuming her minivan outside a Shell station...
...said that the actions of the two fans at Chicago's Comiskey Park who attacked a first-base coach were "a move rarely expected outside Yankee Stadium" [PEOPLE, Sept. 23]. As a native New Yorker, I am tired of such gratuitous, negative references to New Yorkers, implying that violence, rowdiness or boorish behavior is exclusive to us. I am proud to be a New Yorker and a Yankee fan. John Costanzo New York City
Another baby-boomer biker is dentist Steven Bobbe, 55, of Melrose Park, Ill. "Driving my car, even for a couple of hours, puts me to sleep," says Bobbe. "But when I'm on my bike, I'm invigorated and can ride for days." Bobbe returned last month from a 2,300-mile round trip to Santa Fe, N.M., driving straight through on the way home...
...cleaning companies’ cost-cutting strategy exacts a terrible human toll. One female janitor, screaming into a megaphone before a march at the Park St. T stop, described the situation she and her family face. Her son is often sick and needs a lot of medicine to stay healthy. But if she buys his medicine, she can’t buy food. So the question every week is whether the son will be healthy and the family can’t eat, or whether he’ll be sick and there’ll be food...