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...Tigris River to pull out pilgrims who had leaped (or fallen) off the bridge; others took injured and exhausted pilgrims into their homes, providing food and shelter until emergency crews arrived. Moir al-Obaidy, a construction worker, and other residents grabbed ladders and slides from a nearby children's playground and used them to help pilgrims off the bridge. "We took beds from a [Sunni] seminary to carry injured people," he said...
...next destination mall to be built on Thonglor was J-Avenue, an upscale venture that's crammed to its trendy rafters with caf?s, bars and slick emporiums. Then a three-storied, $9.5 million extravaganza called Playground, tel: (66-2) 714 7888, opened its doors. Billed as Thailand's "first superchic concept store," Playground offers a sprawling selection of fashion, jewelry, books, art and furniture. The goods are the creation of homegrown designers (check out Prin Sachakul's hot clothing label, the Oddyssee) as well as overseas names (don't miss the must-have housewares by Amsterdam's Droog Design...
Four-year-old Kevin White of Richmond, Calif., is enjoying that all-American event, a birthday party at McDonald's. Wearing a Ronald McDonald birthday hat and clutching a fistful of French fries, he gets ready to whisk down the slide in the restaurant's kiddy playground, while his mother Cynthia stands by with envy. "One day I hope that Kevin will appreciate my cooking," she says. "But for now, I can't even compete with a Big Mac and fries...
...Warren had collaborated with local store owners, and directed Ms. Brophy to a playground, a sweet shop, a flower store, and a liquor store in Chinatown. The final clue led Ms. Brophy to Confucius Plaza, across the street from his apartment...
...many others, I suspect--the lonely, introverted process of statistically quantifying my strength and stamina levels and comparing them to some abstract norm started a few years later, in fifth grade, when we were called to the playground to compete for the President's physical fitness certificate. The hidden purpose of this cold war--era program was, I presume, to transform the public schools into a vast network of junior boot camps. The criteria for obtaining the certificate were ominously unvarying and exact. If a child couldn't do a certain number of chin-ups or complete...