U Turn; The fabled D.C. street that played host to Duke Ellington and...

The Washington Post;  March 5, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Street has always been a quick-change artist. Old Jim Crow shaped its earliest existence, creating rigid rules...folks could be. African Americans didn't have a place to go, so they made their own. And they owned it. U Street was it. Being mercurial, U Street stretched boundaries beyond its alphabetical ...

For Street, a final shot at the summit.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  January 29, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Picabo Street speaks the way she skis. The words come racing...stop in the finish corral. The race is over. Street is done talking. Whoa. Take a breath. But only for a moment, because Street is revving up again, ready to tell her story...

Heard it on - or in? - the street.(THE HOME FORUM)

The Christian Science Monitor;  June 29, 2007 ;     586 words ...Is a street necessarily a way of traveling, or can...see a green mosque and then take the next street to the right.' We looked in the direction...he was pointing. What green mosque? What street? We hadn't seen pavement for an hour or...

Street closes AL rookie haul Baseball writers honor A's reliever

Oakland Tribune;  November 8, 2005 ;     700+ words ...OAKLAND -- Huston Street didn't sleep much Sunday night, a series...thought he'd already won. You see, when Street was named The Sporting News Rookie of...many people were congratulating him, but Street kept reminding people that wasn't the...

Street, Blackburn tigers this time

Sunday Star-Times;  February 15, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Street, Blackburn tigers this time -------------------- WHEN YOU consider Aucklander John Street paid $75,000 for a round of golf with Tiger Woods, shelling...out of the ball park. And after a lifetime of hard slog, Street, 59, reckons he and his business partner Graeme Blackburn...

Dr. Sana Elbeshbeshy administering a polio vaccine to Camille Martin on...

The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  April 30, 1993 ;     95 words ......Elbeshbeshy administering a polio vaccine to Camille Martin on Thursday at St. Therese's School...Elbeshbeshy administering a polio vaccine to Camille Martin on Thursday at St. Therese's School...Elbeshbeshy administering a polio vaccine to Camille Martin on Thursday at St. Therese's ...

Street learns to blend in

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  December 2, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Street learns to blend in Skiing star becomes more of a 'teammate...York Times Sunday, December 2, 2001 Aspen, Colo. -- Picabo Street was searching for her rescue party in a hotel lobby, stretching...On the mezzanine level, the U.S. ski team was waiting. Street knew what time it was, but she could not ditch ...

Street ready to risk everything on slopes

Daily Breeze;  February 6, 2002 ;     565 words ...Street ready to risk everything on slopes OLYMPICS: Veteran U...gold. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah -- There is so much on Picabo Street's mind in the days before the Winter Olympics: another...practice runs begin for the last race of her Olympic career, Street said fear was the last thing on her mind as she ...

Street hits end of road

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  February 13, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Street hits end of road She finishes 16th in final downhill By...audacious, eras in American skiing came to a close as Picabo Street, seven weeks shy of her 31st birthday and health intact...her to a gold medal four years ago in Nagano. No matter. Street, who lives in nearby Park City, called this her ...

Street's Uphill Climb Turns To U.S. Gold

The Washington Post;  February 12, 1998 ;     700+ words ...Picabo Street did not want to cry on the medal stand...women's super giant slalom around her neck, Street sang and thought of her mother, who taught...because I had my own anthem in my head," said Street. "And, at that moment, I yearned, and yearned...

Shunning The Hands Of Kindness;Woman Chooses Blanket, Street Over Offers...

The Washington Post;  July 18, 1990 ;     700+ words ...Mary Street, 39, wears only an Army-green blanket that...beneath. She sits like a stone at 15th and K streets, her feet wrapped in olive-colored tattered...socks, her sandals held together with tape. Street, a small, bent woman dark with dirt from...

Picabo, the Street With a Known Name; U.S. Skier Perseveres for Third...

The Washington Post;  February 6, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Picabo Street had fielded the same question, it seemed...staked her place among the world's best, Street did not have the heart to tell the truth...fear. That changed just one month after Street reached the pinnacle of her sport, winning...

Street gets lesson in patience.(special)

Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  February 6, 1998 ;     700+ words ...Picabo Street never does anything slowly. When she talks...headlong through her life became a detriment. Street, 26, attacked her rehabilitation as if...her first training run last September, Street's frustration washed over her on a mountainside...

Vitality, Money Returning to H Street

The Washington Post;  April 12, 1987 ;     700+ words ...On H Street NE, construction crews work on a just begun office building...antique jewelry, paint supplies and bathroom fixtures. The H Street corridor between Second and 14th streets NE is emerging from a 30-year slump. Once one of the city...

A wish to capture flavor of Border Street

Rocky Mountain News;  April 24, 2006 ;     697 words ...Border Street is a long way from Belen, N.M. Oh, there are surface similarities. Most of the people who lived on my street were Hispanic, as are most of the people on Border Street. In fact, I can recall only one white family. Mr. and...