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Biggs, age 79 and severely ill with pneumonia, remains at a hospital in Norwich, where is to undergo minor surgery. Following a series of strokes, he can no longer walk, is fed through a tube and communicates by pointing to letters of the alphabet on a board. The three prison guards who stood watch over his hospital bed round the clock have been removed. Their departure comes just one day ahead of Biggs' 80th birthday and the 46th anniversary of the train robbery...
...ones with driver's licenses. In May, the city government started to paint 4,929 public and private parking places pink throughout the city, with thousands more slated to go under the brush next year. The pink parking spots, reserved for women drivers so they don't have to walk so far to work or the mall, are part of the South Korean capital's Women Friendly Seoul Project, an effort for the notoriously macho Asian city of more than 10 million to transform itself into a safer, more heel-friendly "space for women...
...capital punishment appears not to have had much effect. Kenya is so beset by crime that it can be unsafe to walk in Nairobi at night, and carjackings and violent robbery are common. "In Kenya, [the death penalty] has not stopped murder - indeed, the rate has been going up by leaps and bounds - nor has it discouraged violent robbery," The Daily Nation said in an editorial after the decision was announced. There are no current figures for the crime rate in Kenya, but the U.S. State Department says there is a "high rate of crime in all regions of Kenya...
Whenever I return to the village after a weekend off, it's like coming home. I see the same people on my walk back every day, and am greeted by my students in the marketplace. When another mzungu shows up in the village, I get protective of my turf. I'm so grateful for the opportunity to experience all the parts of Tanzania—the bustle of Arusha, the beaches of Zanzibar, the savanna of Ngorongoro. But it's the walk home to my house in the village after a long day of teaching, with sunflowers on my right...
...side. One of the marches in the weeks after Iran's June election went from Imam Khomeini Square past Tehran's main bazaar. According to a witness, thousands of bazaaris closed their shops so they could stand outside and watch hundreds of thousands of green-clad protesters silently walk by. In fact, the route had been designed to draw Iran's merchants and workers into the growing opposition coalition to make it seem as if it had the support of Iran's commercial sector...