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...After all those years in Yankees pinstripes, what did it feel like when you first put on a Dodgers uniform? -Mike McGillicutty, Echo Park, Calif.You don't feel it until you look in the mirror and all of a sudden people are starting to make comments that "boy, you don't look the same." I knew what the Dodgers uniform represented, as a kid growing up in Brooklyn. But it certainly felt strange...
...houses in neighborhoods like Englewood. Among Trinity's members are doctors, architects, prominent journalists, as well as teachers, firemen and garbage collectors. Many residents of the South Side?s farthest edges travel to jobs two hours away via public transport: a bus and a train transfer, often through Hyde Park, the leafy, upscale neighborhood best known because of its proximity to the University of Chicago. In recent years, parts of the South Side have experienced the arrival of gleaming condominiums and professionals of all races. Much of the city?s bid for the 2016 Olympic Games is centered in Washington...
...Their idea was that Harvard will always be there, but Barack will not always be there,” says the Overland Park, Kan. native...
...tracks the water elevation of Lake Mead since it was created by the construction of the Hoover Dam in 1935. After years of relative stability, starting in 2000 the graph resembles the record of a stock-market crash. The visitor center's chart stops at 2006, but as a park ranger tells me, "It just keeps going down from there...
...alone, by one Western scholar's count, there are 238 dance halls and karaoke parlors and 658 brothels, and the Potala Palace-for centuries a symbol of a culture whose people were ruled by a monk and home to nine Dalai Lamas-is now mockingly surrounded by an amusement park...