Word: strip
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...missed a turn (we suspected) and so had stopped to ask directions. We pulled over next to a median strip, on which stood eight or 10 people, half with shopping bags, presumably waiting for a bus. We rolled down the window, smiled sheepishly and directed our confusion to one of the men (tall, black, in a shiny Adidas jersey). With a swift sort of purpose, he nodded and stepped forward from the island and toward us, in a gesture we took as exceptionally friendly and helpful, getting so close to better relate the coordinates...
...other ostensible signs of carjacking, and so it dawned on us that this was what happened in Rome. In Cuba, that is. Here hitchhiking is custom. Hitchhiking is essential. Hitchhiking is what makes Cuba move. All those other people on the median strip? All waiting for rides. Perhaps a bus, yes, if they have a few hours to lose. But until then there are cars, and occasionally the back of a bicycle, and the hope that someone will stop. So the man in our car tells us where we're going, and then we're off, eastbound, through the outer...
...Vegas last week to Adbelmajed Dahoumane, the suspected accomplice of Ahmed Ressam, the Algerian man caught smuggling explosives across the U.S.-Canadian border. Dahoumane's destination raised a red flag - Las Vegas will host one of the nation's largest New Year's celebrations on its fabled strip. The feds continue to scour the Southwest for leads on the disappearance of a thousand pounds of explosives from an Arizona rock quarry. Across the country, authorities in the Big Apple - expected to host a million-plus in Times Square - are fortifying the city, welding manholes shut and locking postal boxes...
Yesterday, I chastised myself for being a blockhead. I haven't read the strip often enough in recent years, and it made me sad when I realized I had been neglecting what used to be an important part of my day. I haven't had time for the Peanuts gang since coming to college. With the meaty issues we weigh every day in section, a Harvard student can't possibly expect to have time for such a simple pleasure...
...rest of the run, I'm going to make a point of reading the strip every morning. I just hope nothing has changed in Charlie Brown's world while I've been away...