Word: townes
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...ANGELES—Times Square makes some think of a seedy part of town from days gone by. Others think of towering buildings and blinding lights. I think of a chance event that renewed my faith in the kindness of others. Three weeks ago I embarked on a trip to New York and Boston. After leaving a Broadway matinee, I walked a few blocks through Times Square when I went to reach for my wallet—but came up empty handed. I franticly checked all my pockets. Passers-by probably thought I was doing the Macarena as I patted...
...decided to go in to town...in hopes we would find an Internet cafe to see if the embassy had sent anything, and to let our friends know that we were okay. While at the Internet cafe, I got a call from the [Harvard] Study Abroad office. [The woman on the phone] told us that to get out of the country we had to get to a hotel in the northern suburbs of Beirut in an hour...
...essentially] been asked to drive in to a city [that was] being hit on roads that were being [h]it. We asked taxis in the town if they would take us, but [were] told that they would not go to [Beirut] for any price. Not knowing how we would get back to Beirut, we rushed back to the house to pack...
...focus on finding sustainable ways for others to provide for themselves.Three 60-year-old brothers occupy my memories of the early part of this summer: Don Saúl, Don Celso, and Don Rubén. Each of them owns a small plot of land in the rural Pacific town of El Pumpo, where cattle grazing was profitable until the same plots of land became divided amongst increasing numbers of children. The next generation of Guatemalans in this town only has three viable ways to live: working in Guatemala City under dreadful conditions, taking the long, uncertain trip to the United...
...mortality rate - 50%, according to some reports. There was one thing I was taught well by the old docs of my early career. DTs are a withdrawal state; you don't get them if you don't take away the alcohol. You kept the ladies and gentlemen of our town smooth, happy and alive if you kept up their intake in the hospital. Roger broke his hip in the late 80s, when cigarettes and whiskey had given way to yoga and granola bars in American Afflaburbia. I had almost forgotten...