Word: sidewalkers
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...four tires better than two? I simply could not wrap my mind around the fact that a couple thin pieces of rubber should be trusted to uphold my hulking 50-pound frame. All that stood between the delicate skin of my knee-caps and the jagged battlefield of a sidewalk was some bouncy plastic? Sorry, not happening...
...Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM), San Francisco, it’s doors opened to students on September 15, 2008, the first day of classes.Located just beyond the Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH), the building defines the far end of the grassy quadrangle that stretches from HMNH to the sidewalk. In the nebulous land beyond the Science Center, riddled with other modern concoctions whose entrances are even more convoluted than the Green Line, the Northwest Science Building provides order and clarity.Every aspect of the building—from the multi-storied walls of glass to the shiny silver handrails?...
...Less than a mile away from the inquiry, outside of the Stockwell Tube station where de Menezes died, a ragtag memorial of family photos, newspaper clippings and candles still hangs between a newsstand and a convenience store. This morning, fresh roses adorned the sidewalk along with new messages of support. "For Jean Charles and all of his family, our sorrow and anger are still with you." At least in this neighborhood, the anger is squarely directed toward the police. Regardless of their best intentions, by killing an innocent man, they did what the would-be suicide bombers had mercifully failed...
...could. Having been unable to break through the firm's jammed phone lines, Jason Cohen, a psychiatrist in private practice, made the one hour, 40 min. drive Monday morning from Freehold, N.J. with the intention of offering counsel to dumbstruck employees. But after witnessing the scene unfolding on the sidewalk, he decided to hold back. "I don't have the heart to approach people carrying boxes out of their offices," he says...
...Braille signs, according to state media. The Forbidden City, which has long been impassable for wheelchair users, installed $585,000 worth of ramps and lifts ahead of the Paralympics, the China Daily reported. And in recent years, large cities like Beijing have been filled with miles of yellow sidewalk markers with special raised patterns to aid blind pedestrians...