Word: sidewalkers
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...made me belong to Massachusetts more than anything else I’ve done in the four years I’ve been here. I got compliments from the grumpy homeless man in front of 7-11 and nods, even half smiles, from people I passed on the sidewalk. And the countless Sox hats I see each day speak to a brand of people united by faith that the losers will one day triumph. The hat fit perfectly, and seemed like it was meant to be worn on my head. I decided it was time to become a convert...
DIED. ROBERT ATKINS, 72, influential, hackle-raising weight-loss guru; of severe head injuries from a fall on an icy sidewalk on April 8; in New York City. He bucked convention in his 1972 best seller Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution, which advised dieters to trash the fruit salad in favor of high-protein, high-fat goodies like bacon cheeseburgers and butter, arguing that without carbohydrates to burn, the body would burn its own fat. Many of the 30 million who have tried the diet swear by it. But his regimen rankled mainstream medical groups, which called it extreme and said...
...spread my knees when I sit down, and stand with my shoulders squared and legs wide. I barrel down the sidewalk with my shoulders hunched and I won’t deviate off course for anyone. I walk along Mass. Ave from the Au Bon Pain to Bartley’s, deliberately aiming myself toward groups of people. To my surprise, everyone gets...
Somewhere between 11 p.m. and 12:30 a.m., as Howard descended the boathouse stairs, Tripician grabbed Howard’s sunglasses—gold men’s Dyce shades worth about $10—from his head and sprinted onto the Memorial Drive sidewalk, according to the report...
Then came the habit of warchalking--which began in London and spread around the globe--in which wardrivers would mark the presence of free networks with a strange hieroglyph--parentheses in reverse order--in chalk on the sidewalk for all to see. "The beauty of Wi-Fi is that it is so decentralized," says Anthony Townsend, an N.Y.U. professor who runs a network of 141 free access points called NYCwireless. Even Brilliant keeps his home Wi-Fi network open, and is happy for his Mill Valley, Calif., neighbors...