Keen to find my own way up into the mountains, I ventured into the city center, walking through the bustling sidewalks, underneath the dirty walls of the fading 19th century buildings, past the garish billboards, and brightly lighted storefront windows, and made my way to the public bus terminal.

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"We're all still in shock, " said Ester Maxman, a local resident who had watched Friday as traffic trickled through Boston's normally bustling downtown streets.

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And as I heaved the stroller through the door and onto the bustling street, I wondered if I was ever going to make a mom friend in this town.

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Some 50 years later, the promise of that day still pulses through this country, on the bustling streets of Nairobi, from -- up to Mount Kenya, from the coastal shores of Mombasa to the plains of the Maasai Mara.

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The shot actually moves inside Schneider's phone, through a bunch of poorly animated circuitry, down a bunch of bustling streets, and into the other guy's receiver.

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They tunnel down through the debris of the World Trade Center complex into the seven-story basement that once housed a bustling retail mall, subway station, and commuter train station.

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