When Jason Kidd announced Monday that he was walking away from basketball, he made it sound like his next step was clear.

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During rehearsals, players take turns walking out into the auditorium to check for sound and balance and then report back to the ensemble.

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Even so, as we began to hear the sound of gently tinkling water, Dhit invited us to remove our walking boots and change into our sandals: it was time to get wet.

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Jacques Henric is walking through a dark parking garage, which echoes to the sound of his boots on the concrete.

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John Azzata, chief of the Nassau County homicide squad, said he alerted Suffolk County colleagues that an as-yet unidentified body was found on Monday afternoon by a woman walking her dog in Lattingtown, an affluent community on Long Island Sound about 35 miles east of New York City.

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But walking across the dark volcanic rocks with the snow cone of Mt Erebus behind and the sound of penguins braying along the sea ice of the sound, it is easy to imagine yourself transported back to the early years of the last century, for this is a timeless landscape.

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Throughout the day, dozens of friends and neighbors streamed in and out of the neighborhood, walking past police barricades that blocked the entrance to the street down a road toward the Long Island Sound.

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Through the tap of her cane, which, like an echolocating bat, sends a small sound out into the world, she could detect the size and constituents of the space through which she was walking.

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