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...vendor who sold a reporter a topless bottle said that she did not know why the policy existed and was only following orders. Perhaps, she mused, the Secret Service was afraid that overzealous audience members could throw the caps onto the floor...
When a reporter suggested that he might purchase another beverage instead, the vendor told him not to worry and promptly handed over the missing cap—after she received the $3.75 for the half-liter of water...
...speech ended, Ali's windowpanes started shaking and cracking. Outside on the avenue, Delwar Hossain, a 26-year-old seller of peanuts, heard a loud noise and thought at first that the tire of a truck must have burst. A moment later, Quddus Miah, a street-side garment vendor, saw thousands of people, many wounded and bleeding, stampeding down the road; his first instinct was to protect his wares, but then he, too, turned and ran for his life...
...everyone was so lucky: 20 people, including a bodyguard who had shielded Hasina, and a senior party leader, were killed, and more than 200 were wounded. When street vendor Miah went to retrieve his merchandise, he found the avenue strewn with the dead and wounded. "I was too stunned and numbed to help anyone," he says...
...GODS When Lunchboxes.com, an online lunch-box vendor, plastered images of Kali, Ganesh and Krishna on its products, followers cried foul. Why? Nishma Gosrani, of Britain's National Hindu Student Forum, explains: "These gods should be worshipped in an honorable way. And there might be animal meat stored inside the boxes, even beef"?an unappetizing notion for those who consider cows sacred...