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...THREE A.M., Mass. Ave. held only the spill of streetlights, the occasional cab, and me, walking home. Outside the Montrose Sps I spotted a pile of trash, mostly packing materials and empty coffee cups. I stopped and began rummaging through a bag for food, thinking suddenly that it would have been opened long ago had it contained food. Only later, walking home, did I remember the well-stocked refrigerator awaiting me there...
Children's kickball games spill over like laughter in the streets. By East European standards, goods are bountiful, and by Western standards, they are inexpensive. The air is foul, the water sparkling, the meals cheap, the service considerate. Along with the shiny gold pins that are always the most valued currency at the Olympics, people have been exchanging stories of local kindnesses. "When our flight connected in Zagreb," says Sandra Knapp of Indianapolis, "eight of us with the U.S.O.C. went to change money, and the banker made us all come to his office for cheese and brandy...
During transportation, the material will be in 10 ml. Sealed vials, which will be inside one-quart cans filled with enough absorbent material to prevent leakage in case of a spill, and the shipments will be coordinated by military vehicles with state police and local fire departments, the report continues...
...billion contract with the French to buy an air-defense system that will include mobile, low-altitude Shahine and Crotale surface-to-air missiles. The Saudis, who have usually purchased American weapons in the past but are diversifying their arms purchases, are fearful that the Iran-Iraq war might spill over and begin to affect them directly...
...these sports: their headlong assault on the weather. Or maybe it is the controlled craziness of the events. On surfaces difficult enough to walk on upright do these people race, leap, whirl, swerve, and then add an extra unnatural measure of defiance by going airborne. Fanatics. Only a spill proves them mortal. So reckless is their attitude that, watching them, one barely believes in the danger. Then someone's momentum is shattered, and a kid lies piled up in his skis like a broken bird. Silence replaces wonder...