Word: taxied
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...Tony, the endearingly mouthy Cockney, rode horses, got married, drove a London taxi (as did his wife Debbie), did some TV bits as an actor, survived a marital crisis (due to his "regretful behavior") and made enough money to buy a holiday home in Spain for his wife, their children and three grandchildren. Tony's one regret is that the East End "changed"; it went brown. "Other cultures," he says, in one of the few overtly political comments on what has become a very domesticated series, "are buying all my old traditions...
Gopnik also compares life in New York and Paris. His description of the difference between getting a taxi in each city is wonderfully observant and witty. Parisians, apparently, line up civilly at designated taxi lines on each block, while New Yorkers battle it out in a free-for-all. Gopnik’s vivid account of the way New Yorkers step in front of each other in the search for a cab, slyly avoiding eye contact, is spot...
...might think riding in a taxi would expose you to less air pollution than you would get walking down a city sidewalk, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Researchers at Imperial College London gave volunteers particulate detectors and had them walk, bike, drive, bus or taxi their way up and down streets in central London, taking a total of 584 individual trips. To everyone's surprise, riding in a taxi resulted in the worst exposure--nearly twice as much as walking. The suggested explanation: taxis tend to get stuck in traffic surrounded by other pollution-belching vehicles...
...FREED. Mirza Tahir Hussain, 36, Pakistani-born British Muslim sentenced to be hanged for the 1988 killing of taxi driver Jamshed Khan; after Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf commuted his sentence; in Rawalpindi. Hussain, who said Khan had died after a gun went off during a struggle as the driver tried to sexually assault him, became a cause célèbre among Britain's Pakistani community and earned an appeal for clemency from Prince Charles during a visit to Pakistan last month. "At last," said Hussain's brother Amjad upon his release, "these 18 years of nightmare appear...
...let’s plan wars” agenda or their anti-SUV agenda, the righteous will prevail, because God is on our side—our “Mission Accomplished” banner will fly yet again. That is, barring any orc invasions, Republican suicides, or killer taxi cab drivers...