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With the beginning of the Republican National Convention on Monday came the end of sanctioned protests and the threat of unrest. A poverty rights group, the Kensington Welfare Rights Union (KWRU), had for weeks been publicizing the March for Economic Human Rights, which, without a permit, brought the potential for mass arrests and police confrontation...
Beyond "almost anything," of course, is violence, and so far there hasn't been a hint of that. On Monday, it was puppetry and pageantry (and a lack of a permit), as the Kensington Welfare Rights Union - a Philly-based organization for the poor and homeless - gathered at City Hall for a trek to the RNC site at the First Union Center in South Philadelphia. Thousands of single-file protesters started down four miles of Broad Street. Placards and banners alternated with chanters ("Hey, hey! Ho, ho! Poverty has got to go!"); a 13-wheelchair convoy of accessible housing advocates...
Cycling suits both the gung-ho exercisers whose knees can no longer take the shock of running and the flabby layabouts who are finally heeding doctors' advice about the heart-protecting, cholesterol-lowering benefits of aerobic exercise. Gabe Mirkin, a sports-medicine physician in Kensington, Md., testifies that pedaling's smooth, rotary motion is safe for your knees. "I used to be a marathoner," he says. "Now that I'm 65, I can't run 400 yards. But I can still ride 20 to 25 miles...
...found in 1957 at an Indian site near Brooklin, Maine, nearly all of them have turned out to be bogus. The Newport (R.I.) Tower, whose supposed Viking origin was central to Longfellow's epic poem The Skeleton in Armor, was built by an early Governor of Rhode Island. The Kensington Stone, a rune-covered slab unearthed on a Minnesota farm in 1898 that purportedly describes a voyage to Vinland in 1362, is today widely believed to be a modern forgery. So is Yale's Vinland Map, a seemingly antique chart with the marking "Vinilanda Insula" that surfaced in the 1950s...
...Carre, but spy novels have never had a Nora Roberts--an author who has made the transition from paperbacks beloved by the romance cognoscenti to hard-covers marketed successfully for mainstream readers. "Nora is the standard that nobody's going to eclipse," says Kate Duffy, an editorial director at Kensington Books, America's largest publisher of romance novels--but not, to Duffy's regret, of those by Nora Roberts. "Authors don't know how Nora does it. She is unique. She is a phenomenon. She has a gift, an extraordinary talent. It just doesn't get any better than Nora...