Word: sidewalks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...where elderly couples gather each day at dawn to go through the ghostly motions of Tai Chi, cranes are busy erecting the world's tallest building, to go with the tallest tower in Asia and the largest department store on the continent. In downtown Toronto, on a jam-packed sidewalk, a blue-robed Chinese monk is knocking clappers ceremoniously together. Amid all the promiscuous minglings of our mishmashed global order, the most confusing ones often arise not when cultures clash but when centuries do, with their different senses of time. The modern Everyplace is the wall of a luxury hotel...
...over Y2K, and slower ones, some even with their own calendar (in Nepal or Ethiopia, say) hardly acknowledge that a new millennium is coming at all. The jangledness of inhabiting several time frames at once is the hallmark of our jet-lagged age. The clappers bang together on the sidewalk in Toronto, but they mark a clock without a face...
...bugging operation was disrupted by sharp-eyed Gs who were driving near State on an unrelated surveillance last June. They noticed Gusev, a known intelligence officer whose mug shot they had memorized, standing on the sidewalk, and acting "oddly." After alerting their superiors, the FBI operatives set up an intense surveillance of Gusev...
Officials left the chair-rail bug in place for a few weeks to make sure they could prove it was under Russian intelligence control. Once the evidence was in hand, two FBI agents confronted Gusev on the sidewalk at 11:34 a.m. last Wednesday. He claimed diplomatic immunity and was declared persona non grata and given 10 days to leave the country...
...John Dumont has called home the doorways and alleyways of downtown San Francisco. For most of that time, the city paid little mind to the 50-year-old former paramedic and his cartful of possessions. That indifference vanished last month when a police officer found him sitting on the sidewalk in front of a Wells Fargo ATM and issued a $76 ticket and a court summons. Then one morning last week, Dumont says, he was awakened by a cop kicking him in the foot and telling him to move on. "It gets worse every day," says Dumont. "If I were...