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...your sweetheart. In Cambridge, where wells are hard to come by, the vision is likelier to appear in a frigid puddle of slush. There you might catch a glimpse of the distressed face of your date as he or she contemplates the next block’s worth of sidewalk acrobatics...

Author: By Shai D. Bronshtein, Alexander R. Konrad, and Garrett G.D. Nelson | Title: Annotations: Valentine's Day | 2/13/2009 | See Source »

...unhelpful, frustrated, cold. But, just as often, you will see a good-natured, tough couple laughing in the face of winter—a cheerful reminder that we ought to gauge our days not by the temperature of the freezing rain or the number of bricks missing in the sidewalk, but by the insurrectionary joy with which we confront them...

Author: By Shai D. Bronshtein, Alexander R. Konrad, and Garrett G.D. Nelson | Title: Annotations: Valentine's Day | 2/13/2009 | See Source »

...said slow business has made paying the rent difficult, and now he faces possible eviction from his home.While O’Brien said “the streets of Harvard Square can actually be as comfy for me as indoors,” he wants to trade the bustling sidewalk to move to the Rockies.“Living indoors actually hurts me physically,” the Cambridge native said.The book stand—officially named “Almost Banned in Harvard Square Booksellers”—is registered with the Harvard Square Business Association.O...

Author: By Michelle L. Quach and Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Book Stand To Close by April | 1/24/2009 | See Source »

...second or third deployment. Even so, they say it's significantly quieter this time than the last time. Sitting in Baghdad traffic, I watched as the gunner in the MRAP casually tossed a Red Bull out of the turret to an Iraqi pedestrian. The man on the sidewalk caught it as the U.S. soldiers giggled. Later at a dining facility at Camp Liberty, a U.S. base, I was stopped short on my way to the salad bar when I saw the "non-pork grill" - a relatively new addition to meet the needs of the increasing number of Iraqis using...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baghdad Bag Claim: A (Happy) Tale of Lost Luggage | 1/5/2009 | See Source »

...targeted all the nests on a block or in a neighborhood. Just as important, the strategy had to involve all the relevant government agencies. Rats found on the edge of Central Park, for example, might be living in a nearby subway station and dining on garbage left on the sidewalk by a grocery store or restaurant. Getting rid of that rat population would require collaboration between the three city agencies that govern the subway, the park and the sidewalks - an endeavor that has gotten easier since the mayor's office set up the Rodent Task Force, which meets weekly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mapping the Rats in New York City | 12/15/2008 | See Source »

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