Word: stoplights
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...against the hackneyed. “Pimps and hos never again,” they urge. They also note that a Latin-American Drug Lords party thrown last year went down in flames. Instead they offer ideas like Stocks n’ Bondage, Golf Pros and Tennis Hos, and Stoplight Parties where attendees wear Red (stop right there), Yellow (proceed with caution), or Green (go for it!) to indicate their willingness...
Things were different back in Tomball, Texas, a town of 10,000 where Watkins and her younger sister Julie were raised. Today, with its strip malls and megastores, Tomball is at the outer edge of Houston's suburban sprawl. But when Watkins was growing up, it was a no-stoplight town with an oil derrick on each corner. Her ancestors were among the hardy German immigrants who descended in the mid-1800s and helped establish the Lutheran church her mother Shirley Klein Harrington still attends each Sunday. It seemed as if Watkins either knew or was related to everyone...
...raced down the strip in Mintz’s car, I came to the realization that I was invincible. I could not wait to find a crowd of adolescents so I could offer them drugs. Suddenly I was at a stoplight and a brand new Ford Taurus pulled up next to me. Sure, I was already driving a Taurus, but, like, the other one had a CD player. I leapt out of my car and began forcing the driver out of the other Taurus. “This is a carjacking!” I yelled. “What...
...Meanwhile, the streets are filling with athletes, family members and anyone who wants to look like an athlete or family member, all wearing colorful high-tech jackets. Standing at a stoplight, it's hard not to appreciate the violent color clash between a group of red-clad Chinese team members and athletes wearing the sunrise-orange U.S. team jacket, all sprinting across the street to beat the light...