May 30th, 2002 issue #0117

May 30th, 2002

Lie down: Expert reluctantly offers safety tip

You're not supposed to walk on railroad tracks, but if you’re on a high bridge and you're about to get hit by a train, safety expert Danny Gilbert advises lying very low between the rails. "It's not a sure-fire way to avoid getting killed," cautions Gilbert, the Roanoke-based safety expert for Norfolk Southern, "but we have had individuals who laid flat and survived."

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Track marks: These lines change lives

By Wesley Hottot

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The week in review

Best conclusions from paid consultants studying the impact of a highly unpopular garage: UVA’s proposed 1,180-car garage will not cause unacceptable traffic problems, acc...

Main, oh Main

It’s been a year since the Albemarle Baking Company left its snug berth in York Place to blaze a new path at the Main Street Market, formerly the MacGregor Imported Auto ...

Rebuild it big

I was never among the detractors of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. In the late ‘80s and early ‘90s I lived in the East Village and loved seeing them daily a...

History on tap

ASKING: $1,500,000SIZE: 5592 fin. square feetYEAR BUILT: 1737 (architecturally renovated in mid-1990s)ADDRESS: 860 White Hall Road (originally Three Chopt Road)NEIGHBORHOOD...

Never Enough: J.Lo's got the goods

Versatile director Michael Apted (Coal Miner's Daughter, The World Is Not Enough, 7-42 Up) offers a standard woman-in-jeopardy thriller, Enough, trying again with a genre t...

My Morning Jacket at Starr Hill

Mark my words: Louisville, Kentucky, is the next big thing in the world of indie music.With success stories like the Strokes and White Stripes making indie the "in" thing (...
Oratorio Society at Old Cabell Hall

By Amy Briggs

Breeders beware: Medicaid part of Ph.D. aid package

Graduate students know money is going to be tight and that they’ll probably have to work several jobs to make ends meet while they’re earning their Ph.D.’s. Here’s ...
Hidden danger: City playgrounds may be hazardous to children

A scraped knee or bumped head may not be the greatest danger your child faces when playing on Charlottesville’s playgrounds. Following up on a tip from a concerned parent...
Neither anthrax nor bombs deter postal management bonuses

A couple of years ago, the U.S. Postal Service in Charlottesville had the dubious distinction of being one of the worst in the country-– and that was before anthrax conta...

Don't get a big head

Q: What's wrong with the old sci-fi notion that in1,000,000 years we humans will have big heads (brains), spindly limbs (disuse), bald pates (in progress), and no wisdom te...

A dreamer's tale

Floyd Collins’ gravestone bears the inscription “the greatest cave explorer ever known.” Frankly, I’d never heard of Collins before last summer when Live Arts annou...
Happy trails

Blue Ridge Mountain Sports, the Rivanna Trail Foundation, and the American Hiking Society join forces once again for the 10th annual National Trails Day celebration. The Ri...
In a family way

Is the end of May really too late to start thinking about vacation plans for the summer? I mean, with all the end-of-the-school-year activities happening this month, who ha...
Inside and out

For a guy who’s lived his life so large, it’s a bit of a surprise that his artwork comes so small. Victor Elmaleh graduated from UVA in architecture in 1942, but spent ...
Latter-day masters

By Mark Grabowski
Rare gifts

By Elizabeth Kiem
School's out

By Mara Rockliff

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