Word: sidewalkers
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...promotion event. Local retailers will offer specials and keep their doors open late. 1369 Coffee House will feature live music from 7 p.m. until 10 p.m., Cambridge high-schoolers will perform Christmas scenes in the windows of Stellabella Toys, and East Coast Grill will be offering cider on the sidewalk. Thurs., Dec. 14 from 7 p.m. until 12 a.m. Inman Square...
...newbies are not alone. Five years ago, Paris greatly expanded its clean sidewalk campaign, but 70% of Parisians still identify dog droppings as the biggest public cleanliness problem...
...raise their children in New York, a city that, in his eyes, has become “a children’s city.” Gopnik’s descriptions of children’s gyms on each block in some neighborhoods and strollers that crowd the sidewalk present a vision of New York from the point of view of both child and parent...
...might think riding in a taxi would expose you to less air pollution than you would get walking down a city sidewalk, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Researchers at Imperial College London gave volunteers particulate detectors and had them walk, bike, drive, bus or taxi their way up and down streets in central London, taking a total of 584 individual trips. To everyone's surprise, riding in a taxi resulted in the worst exposure--nearly twice as much as walking. The suggested explanation: taxis tend to get stuck in traffic surrounded by other pollution-belching vehicles...
...that kills 600 Americans each year. There's the early-morning heart attack, which is 40% more common than those that strike later in the day. There's the fatal plunge down the stairs, the bite of sausage that gets lodged in your throat, the tumble on the slippery sidewalk as you leave the house, the high-speed automotive pinball game that is your daily commute...