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Muni underground train stations lack guardrails for blind
- It has been five years, and Chris Gray still doesn’t know what went wrong. He remembers hustling to enter the door of an underground Muni train at the Van Ness Station late in the evening of Jan. 15, 2003, when, in an instant, something went terribly awry.
Power Profile: Ted Leonsis: The former dot-com pioneer tackles new challenges in sports and filmmaking
- In the fantasy life of many sports fans, Ted Leonsis sits on top of the world. In real life, he spends his working days above the eight-floor garage of the Ballston Common Mall in Northern Virginia, a seemingly peculiar location for the offices of a near-billionaire dot-com pioneer. But it’s the perfect place for the majority owner of the Washington Capitals because the team’s $42 million practice facility is a floor below. The close proximity allows Leonsis, an attainer of the unattainable, to focus on what he calls the ultimate challenge: winning a professional sports championship.
- In the fantasy life of many sports fans, Ted Leonsis sits on top of the world. In real life, he spends his working days above the eight-floor garage of the Ballston Common Mall in Northern Virginia, a seemingly peculiar location for the offices of a near-billionaire dot-com pioneer. But it’s the perfect place for the majority owner of the Washington Capitals because the team’s $42 million practice facility is a floor below. The close proximity allows Leonsis, an attainer of the unattainable, to focus on what he calls the ultimate challenge: winning a professional sports championship.
Menlo Park cyclist back on her bike after 2006 crash
- Dragged nearly 35 feet underneath a truck, avid bicyclist MaryAnn Levenson remembers thinking as paramedics arrived after a horrendous accident in December, “Oh my God, I’m lying here naked, I must’ve been hit.”
- Dragged nearly 35 feet underneath a truck, avid bicyclist MaryAnn Levenson remembers thinking as paramedics arrived after a horrendous accident in December, “Oh my God, I’m lying here naked, I must’ve been hit.”
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