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They looked like they were on a family outing. On Aug. 25, Syed Hanif, a middle-aged auto-rickshaw driver living in the northern Bombay area of Chimatpada, climbed into a taxi along with his wife, Fahmida, and two daughters, 16-year-old Farheen and four-year-old Shakira. As police later recounted, Hanif threw a heavy bag into the trunk of the cab and instructed the driver to take them to the Gateway of India, a Bombay landmark and one of the city's most popular tourist spots. Once there, the family told the driver to wait for them...
...with the date, confirming New York's position as the capital of capitalism. Meanwhile, half a world away, the few residents of Baghdad who had electricity sat stuck to their TV sets, watching the superpower grope in the dark. "We stayed up for an hour watching it," said a taxi driver, "until the electricity shut down." --Reported by Amanda Bower, Sean Gregory and Jyoti Thottam/New York; Laura Eggertson/Ottawa; Steven Frank/Toronto; Elisabeth Kauffman/Nashville; Eric Roston, Douglas Waller and Mark Thompson/Washington; Fran Stewart/Cleveland; and Cathy Booth Thomas/Dallas
...resident of Somerville reported taking a cab from Faneuil Hall sometime between Aug. 9 at 11:00 p.m. and Aug. 10 at 2:00 a.m. while he was very intoxicated. He had argued with the taxi driver because he did not have enough money to cover his fare. He said he next remembered being in Harvard Square, his wallet and cell phone missing...
...hair was short and brown. (Was it ever truly red?) We talked about a sitcom she was developing, and about the U.S. presidential race. When the bottle was empty she went off to have dinner at the Ivy with Channel 4 star Graham Norton; I got in a taxi, exhilarated but slightly glum, and went home. A copy of We Love the City by Hefner- a London-based trio somewhere between folk and punk - had just arrived from Amazon. I hit the play button and heard the first line of the first song: "This is London/ Not Antarctica...
...Beetle was adored for its shape, mechanical simplicity, and?thanks to a rear engine?its performance in snowy conditions. The last Beetle?No. 21,529,464?rolled off an assembly line at Volkswagen's plant in Mexico, where the car sold well and was a mainstay of taxi companies...