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...LOVE GOD and WE ARE SPECIAL are written in a child's neat block letters. At the bottom of the picture, a little girl named Laketa wrote her name. On a hot July night last year, Laketa awaited her turn in a double-Dutch jump-rope game on the walkway of her building. Suddenly, the taunting chants of warring gangs filled the air, and gunfire broke out. A bullet pierced Laketa's chest, and she fell to the pavement. She died on the hospital operating table. Laketa was nine years...
...able to move forward.” With the newly-announced funding, that gap is filled. The funds, which come from the state Transit Oriented Development (TOD) program, will go primarily toward improvements at the intersection of Mass Ave. and JFK and Brattle streets. The walkway connecting Out of Town and the Coop—which an Improvement Project report has dubbed “the super crosswalk”—will be widened, with additional curb ramps and new pedestrian signals installed, according to Tomeu. The improvement project is supported by the Harvard Square Business Association...
...called, was a "structure" made entirely of water vapor, produced by a framework of 31,000 computer-controlled spray nozzles configured on a multilevel platform in the middle of Lake Neuchtel, near the town of Yverdon-les-Bains, and linked to the shore by a walkway. Visitors could approach and enter this hovering fog bank while asking themselves high-minded questions like, What really is an enclosure? Where is the line between inside and outside? And, while we're at it, where...
Like many before him, Sheldon Gordon came to Atlantic City, N.J., confident that he would win big. Standing on a glass walkway between his new beachfront shopping mall and Caesars casino, he surveys a boardwalk full of people on a humid June afternoon and says, "There's no mall in America that has this amount of traffic on a Monday." If he were playing poker, Gordon's face would be a dead giveaway: he is obviously quite happy with his hand. At the end of the walkway is the Pier, a $210 million green glass complex holding 90 shops...
...average, two people per month are either seen jumping or found in the water. (Many more are believed to jump at night, after the pedestrian walkway is officially closed, and their bodies are sucked out to sea and never found.) What about the cost to the Coast Guard of retrieving bodies? And how can that be balanced against the cost of wasted lives? No one seems to know what those numbers...