Word: sidewalkers
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...truck stops, Crandall gets out, and the Sidewalk Sunday School begins. "What was the Prodigal Son doing when he left home?" the 26-year-old minister asks a swarm of giggling children, age 5 and older. As they ponder the answer, he takes a spaghetti strainer out of a sack stuffed with Bibles and turns it into a spiky helmet by filling its holes with nails facing outward. Then he places the metal headgear on a nervous volunteer. A child shouts out the correct answer--"Feeding pigs!"--and, as a reward, gets to aim water balloons at the newly anointed...
Stavis fought back, standing next to his opponents on the sidewalk. As patrons entered his store, he distributed fliers of his own with a bold red headline: “These Anti-Israel Demonstrators Are Preparing The Next Holocaust...
...down and the cartilage takes longer and longer to replenish itself. As the cushion of cartilage grows progressively thinner, the bones begin to grind against one another. This is a normal consequence of aging, but aging isn't the only culprit. Something as simple as falling on an icy sidewalk or putting on some extra pounds can increase your risk of osteoarthritis. Anything that puts extra stress on the joints will wear out the cartilage that much faster...
...expected (not unreasonably) to station themselves at the front of the house. Instead, they’re practically cloistered from view, so far removed from the entrance that all diners must nimbly navigate themselves, un-ushered, past a dusky terrace of Parisian café tables oriented to face the sidewalk, just to get noticed and to have their application assessed. Those who’ve just popped in without a reservation should prepare for purgatory (but what a luxurious purgatory it is: Customers fidget on purposely distressed leather sofas while they anxiously await admission). All this entrance-intrigue is bathed...
...Volvo toots its horn as it accelerates through Cambridge, headed toward Allston. Honks of support answer; a few pedestrians wave from the sidewalk...