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Olympic officials hope to turn the city itself into a secure environment. Anyone entering the seven-block pedestrian zone known as Olympic Square will be searched. Sensors will monitor the local food, air and water supplies for chemical and biological toxins. And the FAA has created a no-fly zone called the "Olympic Ring" for commercial and private planes that encompasses a 45-mile radius from Salt Lake International Airport. Even so, insists Salt Lake Olympic Committee president Mitt Romney, "once you're inside the secure perimeter, it will feel and look just like prior Games...
...community plan includes measures to widen Allston’s two largest streets —Western Ave. and North Harvard St.—and transform them into pedestrian-friendly boulevards lined with trees, benches, and retail stores. At the intersection of the two streets—currently home to a gas station, Dunkin’ Donuts, industrial lots, and the low-income housing Charles View Apartments complex—the plan proposes a new “Allston Square,” a commercial center similar to Harvard Square that will serve as a transition between Harvard?...
...suicide bombers struck the busy Ben Yehuda pedestrian mall in downtown Jerusalem, killing 11 Israelis. One of the bombers was from Hamas; the other had just resigned from the Palestinian General Intelligence...
...latest deterioration in relations began on Saturday night, Dec. 1, when two Palestinian bombers struck a busy cluster of cafes along a pedestrian mall in Jerusalem, killing 10 Israelis, not one of them older than 21. The next day, another terrorist blew himself up on a bus in the northern city of Haifa, killing 15 riders, mostly old people. The perpetrators--as well as the bomber who exploded outside a Jerusalem hotel on Wednesday, killing himself alone and blowing his head through a window of the establishment's fifth floor--were from the militant Islamic organizations Hamas and Islamic Jihad...
...month), as a bank guard. Yet two Saturdays ago, after a Ramadan breaking-of-the-fast dinner with his family in the town of Abu Dis and prayer at the mosque across the street, Osama, 25, found his way to the Ben Yehuda pedestrian mall in downtown Jerusalem and blew himself up. Seconds later, his best friend, Nabil Halabiyeh, did the same. Ten Israelis died, and 188 were wounded. Muhammed notes that his son was jailed by Israel for four years for connections with the militant Hamas movement, but he seems perplexed by Osama's last deed...