Word: sidewalkers
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...Dartboard understand their requiring bicyclists to use headlights, but we cannot understand the mandate that bicyclists not ride on the sidewalks. Although we don't support either situation, we would rather have a bicyclist, hit a pedestrian than a car hit a bicyclist, and the chances of the latter are much greater if the bikes are on the street than if they are on the sidewalk...
...Fokker-100 belonging to TAM regional airlines, took off at 5:45 EST this morning and, according to Globo, dipped right sharply, struck an apartment building and eight houses and burst into flames. As live TV coverage showed a row of bodies covered with black plastic on the sidewalk and firemen sprayed smoking bits of the airplane with hoses, the search for casualties amid the rubble on the ground continued. The crash occurred about one mile from the runway. Patricia Almeida of Globo reported "perfect" weather at takeoff and had no information as yet about the cause of the crash...
...early days of this memoir have the charm and freedom of life lived as holiday in someone else's magic country. "My first impression of Paris was that it wasn't so much a city as a stage setting from a Broadway musical," Buchwald reports. "The sidewalk cafes were exactly as they were depicted in the magazines and movies...honking taxis, street vendors selling dirty pictures, roses, oriental rugs..." Buchwald talked his way into a job as a nightclub and film reviewer for the Herald Tribune. His career was launched. Buchwald's recollections of the Trib's scruffy Paris bureau...
Later Tuesday evening, I walked back to the site of Fokin's performances where a makeshift monument had been constructed. I quickly gave up my suspicions. On the sidewalk lay laminated copies of a Boston Globe article on the puppeteer and photos of the man at work...
...pylons were expected to be removed from the brick sidewalk after the University's Environmental Health and Safety division had inspected the site for bodily fluids, according to Roger Baker, a Harvard Facilities Maintenance and Operations worker at the crash site...