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BERNARD KERIK, police commissioner, who is already at the Trade Center: The explosion is enormous. I'm thinking, "Jesus Christ, we're under attack." There's a black man in the middle of the street. He has a vending pushcart. When he sees the people jumping, he completely loses it. He runs toward me to grab me. I have to get somebody to drag him away from me. I can't think with him screaming in my ear. This is minutes before the mayor arrives...
...That Sterling Silver Moon" became "Mandy" a year later; "Smile and Show Your Dimple," a top ten tune in 1918, morphed into "Easter Parade" in 1933. He appropriated four lines of the chorus of "To My Mammy" (1920) for "How Deep Is the Ocean" (1932). He rescued the pushcart plaint "Any Love Today" (written in 1931 but not recorded), tweaked it into "Any Yams Today" for Ginger Rogers in the 1938 "Carefree," then reworked it again as "Any Bonds Today," a hit for the Andrews Sisters, and a big fund raiser for the wartime Treasury Department...
...cities during the economic boom of the late '80s and early '90s, they brought their yearning for six- and eight-legged creatures with them. Bangkok natives were reintroduced to the wonders of savory creepy-crawlies and liked what they tasted. As soon as Kiam Poopaduang parks his pushcart full of insects outside the city's Nana red-light district each night?its sign reads "Amazing Thai Food"?motorcycle taxi drivers and bar girls start to swarm. Four years ago Kiam was a rice farmer in the northeast. "I barely made enough to feed myself," he says. Now, on a good...
...about 20 different varieties of insects, but the best selling?the Big Mac of the bug business?is by far the takkatan, or grasshopper. "They taste a little like shrimp, and they're always clean," says Weerayuth Srisook, who is one of five wholesalers who supply more than 400 pushcart vendors and 30 or so restaurant owners. Originally from Khon Kaen in the northeast, Weerayuth, 25, with a sixth-grade education, started selling insects when he came to Bangkok five years ago. He grosses about $1,000 a day, clears about $225, and says business is getting better every year...
...challenge communism suffers from the onset of Parkinson's disease, limps and has terrible difficulty negotiating steps. His left arm shakes, at times uncontrollably. His face is rigid, and his speech is slurred. At the end of 1999, his aides moved him around St. Peter's Basilica with a pushcart...