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...police say her son was busy cutting a taxi driver's throat on the night of Aug. 16, 1994, but Yang Shuxia says she knows better. "He was right here lying down next to me with the tube running into his arm," she says, pointing to the kang, a traditional brick sleeping platform found in most farmers' homes in this part of northeastern China. Yang and other family members insist that then 21-year-old Zhu Yanqiang couldn't even get to the toilet without help, much less sneak out to join in the brutal robbery-murder that took place...
...honest, I might not stay in England at all. Instead, I would catch the Eurostar to Paris, take a taxi to the Odéon area of St. Germain, and book myself a table for lunch at Les Editeurs. Part café, part restaurant, part library, this is the kind of enigmatic, open-all-day place Paris does so wonderfully well. I've had every type of meal there: breakfasts of croissants, orange juice and piping-hot fresh coffee; lunchtime feasts of moules marinières and chips washed down with Puligny-Montrachet; afternoon tea while reading English newspapers...
...growing demand. AAA predicts a Memorial Day weekend as busy as ever. Some experts say you won't see drivers really get price sensitive until they are routinely paying $100 every time they fill up. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg can float congestion-pricing schemes and tell taxi drivers they have to switch to hybrids by 2012, but to the general public, this is about time and love, not money and reason. We may fear global warming, replace our lightbulbs, recycle our plastics. But in America a man's car is still his castle, and you don't pick...
...targeted at foreigners, and terrified that their family members will be kidnapped for ransom. Pauline's days, writes O'Donnell, "were punctuated with the constant phone calls she demanded from [her son] Jamal - when he got to college, as he moved from class to class, as he chose a taxi for the short trip home." She tells the author: "There is nothing in my life. I never do anything or go anywhere...
...avoid possible surface-to-air missiles. But a trip to Arbil is so safe that on my flight I was the only passenger packing body armor. When I arrived, my biggest problem was the $50 fare charged for a 10-minute cab ride by the drivers of Hello Taxi--and finding a room at one of the city's packed hotels...