Many stories and jokes circulate about why the firetrucks are red. According to many sources online includingWonderopolis, the story goes something like this. “Because they have eight wheels and four people on them, and four plus eight makes twelve, and there are twelve inches in a foot, an...
The whole process took a while, he went out to maybe ask someone, took another photo or two of me (again, I had to remove everything from my face) and finally produced a card that looked like a paper I-94. I glanced at it and spotted a mistake – a wrong type of visa. After ...
Maybe Mr. Klein recognized my importance as an employee, my growing knowledge of the over-all operation, or maybe someone noticed the blood-stained tatey chips, but eventually I was moved up, or maybe down, to being a helper on the delivery trucks. The trucks were classic step-vans, the ...
On the other side of the road, past a chain barrier to keep the trucks out, a sprawling sea of tents of every possible shape and size took up most of camp, everything from a single claustrophobic bivy sack to an expedition tent with full table settings and heaters befit for...
An Associated Press reporter at the scene saw bloodied bodies being shuttled away in police trucks. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said the attack was carried out by a "terrorist group" and vowed to arrest the perpetrators. He said it was too early to say if the Southeast Asian Islamic...