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...housing projects. The area's focal point is Spitalfields market, founded in 1887 and still going strong, in part [an error occurred while processing this directive] due to the controversial development of the western side. Under an arching transparent canopy, mainstream shops and restaurants, which moved in over the winter, are now doing a brisk trade alongside the established stalls peddling eclectica...
...with toy guns run the risk of being shot. The reason for the statement was that children in Ulster these days sometimes carry real guns ... The backroom bombmakers rarely venture out, leaving the dirty work to carriers, most of them inexperienced teenagers. Six have died in bombing accidents this winter ... A strange mixture of secrecy and foolhardy openness marks the I.R.A. ... While I.R.A. men still execute informers, there are telephone numbers to call for accurate information on [which wing of the I.R.A. is] claiming credit for an operation. The war is one of both violence and propaganda." Read more...
...long will it take us to drive our brand-new Jeep from Sweet Valley High School to Sweet Valley University? Other installment series feature girls who seem eternally trapped in ninth grade—there is no sense of linear time, but there are a whole lot of winter semi-formals. The success of McCafferty’s three Jessica Darling novels has proven that not all college-bound English majors are brushing up on Chaucer the summer before they leave for school. The author was among the first to acknowledge the unprecedented level of obsession many American high school...
...some birds are actually doing fine, adjusting to change and even increasing their numbers--at least in the bird counts. Some hummingbirds, for example, that used to winter in Mexico don't bother to make the trip anymore because the U.S. is now warm enough all year long. A number of migratory species that nest in northeastern forests have rebounded because that part of the country is reforesting as agriculture declines. Bluebirds are thriving, says Butcher, because bluebird lovers have been setting up nesting boxes for them for the past half-century...
...year--without changing its menu. Andrew Hutto, owner of Baxter Station Bar and Grill in Louisville, Ky., used the savings from his chapter's buying group to help pay his gas and electric bill, which more than doubled, from $2,500 to $5,100 a month last winter...