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...half north of Tokyo by bullet train. Nakamura, the 73-year-old granddaughter-in-law of the store's founder, runs the place with two of her sons and their wives, selling beer and liquor, cigarettes, canned goods, toiletries and candy. Her store couldn't be more picturesque, with worn wood floors, shelves of sake that reach to the ceiling, 10-kilo bags of rice stacked waist high and holiday decorations that say "Merry Christmas 1996." She wears three sweaters and a flowered apron and sports a couple of gold teeth. Stay long enough and Nakamura will seat...
...like the rook from a giant chess set. Ninety-nine steps spiral to the crenellated parapet, where you can look out on Boston and Cambridge spread before you. When I got to the tower, I had been in the cemetery for an hour; the shock of the wasps had worn out, and I felt at peace with death...
...London Underground. But newspapers said they had received the information from security sources, suggesting that different arms of the government were not in sync. The British weren't alone in fearing chemical weapons. The U.S. embassy in Rome was awaiting the arrival of "escape hoods" - protective gear worn over the head and shoulders to allow staff to escape a chemical attack - for all of its over 700 employees as part of a new State Department program to supply its overseas stations with safety garb. And security agencies in Australia conducted practice drills to rehearse their response to a chemical, biological...
...event.” It’s hardly about what happens between the lines in the 119th playing of the football game. Rigorous academic research suggests that the actual game itself stopped being important circa 1923, back in the good ol’ days of dinky leather helmets worn by guys named Poindexter Q. Wilmington...
Though I’m almost sure the aforementioned T-shirts are only worn by us undergrads. Then again, you never know...