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...Real estate agents came together this past weekend to lick their collective wounds and get a bit of communal support. The National Association of Realtors was holding its annual conference, hopefully entitled "Destination: Success." Lionel Richie performed and recently unretired bicyclist Lance Armstrong gave a motivational talk. Despite the optimistic theme and the headline guests, attendance was down 20% from a year ago to 20,000 real estate agents. In all, NAR president Charles McMillan says the number of working real estate agents has dropped about 10% nationwide to 1.24 million, from a peek of 1.37 million two years...
...bicyclist collided with a Harvard Shuttle bus early Sunday morning, according to the Harvard University Police Department. The accident occurred at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Everett Street at approximately 1:10 a.m., according to HUPD spokesman Steven G. Catalano. According to Erika P. Pierson ’12, who was one of the passengers on the shuttle, none of the 15 students on the bus were seriously injured. According to Carl Tempesta, the manager of operations for Harvard Transportation Services, as the shuttle driver was making a right turn onto Everett Street, a bicyclist struck the passenger side...
...unclear, however, if the red wing attacks from its beak, which is usually sharp and cone-like, or with its feet. Given the bird's size, the danger is more likely to come not from the attack itself, but from the reaction to it. For instance, a newly attacked bicyclist veers into the path of an oncoming bicycle. Or car. Or an attack so deeply traumatizes a child that she doesn't want to be near birds again. Nevertheless, "it's startling," says David Willard, manager of the bird collection at the Field Museum, who has himself been attacked...
...readily available, he said, in military supply stores - similar to that which held the crudely fashioned bomb. He said witnesses placed a hooded man with a backpack riding a bicycle on the island before the blast. Police released a grainy surveillance video Thursday afternoon of the attack showing a bicyclist on the island immediately before the loud blast, which sent white smoke billowing through the empty intersection...
...great danger. Police agents claiming to be Meiping's friends came to visit Cheng at odd hours and urged her to seek revenge. Suspecting a trap, she refused. Groups of schoolchildren suddenly began harassing her in the street, shouting, ''Spy! Imperialist spy!'' She narrowly escaped death when a mysterious bicyclist deliberately knocked her down in the path of an oncoming bus. Her health slowly improved, however. She did not have cancer but merely a hormonal disturbance. And she began to benefit from the changes in China's overall political situation. When Chou En-lai died in January 1976 the radicals...