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...forget focus. Tuesday is a valuable magazine for the casual reader—people who can’t take the smoke in the Advocate building or put up with their crazy “postmodernism.” Tuesday’s for people who like to read articles, not articles; stories, not bories...
FOOD FOR LESS Forget vip phone lines, advance reservations and jaw-dropping dinner bills. Some upscale restaurateurs have set up shop in more humble locations such as, uh, the sidewalk. Danny Meyer (of Blue Smoke, the Modern and Tabla fame) last year unveiled a ?roadside? food stand in New York City's Madison Square Park. The Shake Shack serves up affordable fare like cheeseburgers, crinkle-cut fries, hot dogs, frozen custard, beer and even breakfast?you can eat your warm heirloom apple fritter and Shack-a-ccino (total: $5.31) on a folding plastic chair under the shade...
...only inhabitant at the time, died in the fire. Her nieces arrived bearing Thanksgiving leftovers just as crews removed the body from the blaze on Friday morning, the Boston Globe reported. Firefighters arrived at the three-story house around 4:50 a.m., 10 minutes after they received reports of smoke in the area, Gialanis said. They contained the fire within an hour, but the crew of more than 60 personnel remained on the scene for the next five to six hours until the fire was completely extinguished, according to Gialanis. Gialanis said the fire department became aware that Evans...
DIED. ALFRED ANDERSON, 109, last surviving participant in the famous Christmas Truce of 1914, during which British and German soldiers emerged from opposing trenches along the Western Front near Ypres, Belgium, to exchange gifts, sing carols and smoke; in Newtyle, Scotland. The unofficial World War I truce spread to much of the Western Front, lasting for days in some areas. Last year he said of the reprieve, "I remember the eerie sound of silence...
...where nitric acid and benzene are combined to make nitrobenzene, a highly toxic liquid. Technicians tried to relieve the pressure but failed, and the column exploded, killing five workers and injuring 70 others. Five more explosions followed. The blasts broke windows and produced a massive, orange cloud of smoke...