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...July 13, 2007, Zachery's 41st birthday. He was working in the hazardous-materials unit, and a call came in from a local hospital: chemical spill. Normally, Zachery would have been behind the wheel of the truck, but on that day, he was acting captain, so he rode in the passenger seat. Siren blaring, lights flashing, horn honking - none of it registered with the driver of a city trash truck, who turned into the path of the speeding haz-mat unit. The crash folded the front of Zachery's vehicle, and his head spiderwebbed the windshield...
...emblematic scene in Kim Tae-kyun’s film “Crossing,” the young protagonist Joon runs after the truck that is carrying away his dead mother. As he struggles and fails to catch up to the moving vehicle, he begins to pant. His shoes are in tatters; the afternoon sun hangs over a dusty North Korean landscape. This scene is one of many that exemplify the genuinely sad but wholly unoriginal feel that characterizes much of “Crossing.” The movie provides an emotional and vivid portrayal of the tragedies...
Local patrons who order from the Harvard Book Store will now be brought their purchases by bicycle instead of truck, due to a recently-created “Green Delivery Service.” The two-week-old program is the result of a partnership with the Somerville-based Metro Pedal Power (MetroPed), a company that uses pedal-powered, three-wheeled vehicles to provide “eco-friendly pick-up and delivery services” to businesses and universities throughout the Boston area, according to its Web site. The service guarantees same- or next-day delivery for in-stock...
Lemon Butterfly cupcake: the cupcake for February 20, 2009, according to the cupcake-a-day calendar I gave my roommate for her birthday.Vanilla Dream: the signature cupcake from the “Hey Cupcake!” cupcake truck I encountered on the side of the road in Austin, Texas over intersession.Vegan Chocolate Chip cupcake with mini Obama flag: the cupcake I ate most recently—from Kickass Cupcakes in Davis Square on the day of my last final.Chocolate cupcakes baked in ice cream cones: the cupcakes my blockmates baked for my 21st birthday.Cupcake04: my first ever AOL screen...
...Boston’s roast beef sandwiches, gave me alarmingly detailed accounts of various sandwich shops. Another friend described the “Fat Bitch,” which far and away takes the prize for—I don’t know, something. Originating in a grease truck on Rutgers’ campus, it contains a hearty portion of Cheesesteak, chicken fingers, two sticks of string cheese, mayonnaise, ketchup, lettuce and tomato heaped onto Italian bread. Oh and French Fries too. The Fat Bitch fanboy later confessed that he was the one who had asked Widener to purchase...