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Once a year, musician and performer Leon Gruenbaum ’85 breaks his strict vegan diet by eating a slice of pizza while surrounded by onlookers. Afterwards, he lowers a plastic mannequin leg from the roof of his New York apartment building in a ritual called “The Lowering...
...especially if you don't know what the builders are up to. Home Designer Suite 6.0 ($99; Windows only), from Better Homes and Gardens, can help give you more creative input. The program uses baby-step tutorials to help you set a floor plan with walls, windows, doors and roof, then tweak as needed. You can then print your creation as a usable architectural blueprint, complete with an estimated project cost. Other tools help with remodeling, landscaping and even furnishing your home. Still, it can't do everything. While you don't need design experience to use Home Designer, without...
Sergeant Roger Vazquez decided the bleeding attacker might still be a threat and sprinted into the street to drag him away and search him for weapons. He grabbed the man by the belt and started pulling him under an overhang. A machine gun opened up from the roof across the street, and bullets hit the dirt around Vazquez's feet. The gunman's body was stuck on the curb. "Leave him, leave him," shouted a soldier. Still Vazquez persevered, getting the man onto the sidewalk and out of the line of fire. Vazquez patted him down, taking...
...American machine gunner atop the mayor's office shot up the roof where the fire was originating. After a few minutes, the squad threw cans of gray and yellow smoke for cover. They carried the wounded man across the street to the mayor's office, where a medic did his best to save him, but within five minutes he was dead. The squad cleared the apartment building from which the shooter had fired but found nothing. Down the street, a 32-year-old woman had caught a bullet in the throat during the cross fire. After it was all over...
...Once the roof of the underground garage was complete, the time was right to give Palfrey House a real home...