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By Tricia Bishop | December 4, 2008
A Pennsylvania mother yesterday filed a multimillion-dollar federal lawsuit against the makers of the popular Crocs footwear after her 6-year-old son's shoe was caught and trapped in an escalator at the National Aquarium in Baltimore this spring, mangling his right big toe. Kerry Burdick, who lives in Eagleville, Pa., claims Colorado-based Crocs Inc. knew its foam clogs were unsafe for escalator travel yet did nothing to warn the public, according to...
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September 20, 2007
ACCIDENTS Shoes may cause escalator injuries At rail stations and shopping malls around the world, reports are popping up of people, particularly young children, getting their toes caught in escalators. The one common theme seems to be the clunky soft-soled clogs known by the name of the most popular brand, Crocs. The Washington Metro subway system has even posted ads warning riders about wearing such shoes on its moving stairways. The ads feature a photo of a crocodile, though they don't mention Crocs by name.
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By Melissa Harris | June 26, 2007
When JCPenney purchased the old Woodward & Lothrop store in Columbia, it wanted to add shelves and displays to showcase the new wares to shoppers as they glided between floors. But the death of a store clerk who could not breathe after her head became wedged between the escalator's moving handrail and the new display, has her family convinced that the designers were negligent. Andrea Albright, a 24-year-old single mother, was riding the up escalator at the Penney store in The Mall in Columbia on June 15, 2002.
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By Michael Kaplan | March 23, 2007
The great thing about superstition is that all kinds work equally well. If your lucky socks don't perform today, you can call on your lucky hat tomorrow. There's no sectarianism about it. Best of all, though, is that if you actually do well, you're entirely free to attribute your success to extreme cleverness. This was the appeal of the great bull market that only began to stumble this month. For years, it gave people the impression that their portfolios had grown thanks to their particular investment savvy.
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By MATTHEW DOLAN | June 3, 2006
A federal appeals court revived yesterday a wrongful death lawsuit filed against Washington's Metro subway system concerning the death of a passenger who had climbed an inoperable escalator in the Bethesda station on a sweltering day. Richard Hadaway Smith, 37, of Rockville suffered a fatal heart attack eight years ago after walking up an escalator in 96-degree heat. His family filed a $2.2 million suit against the transit system in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt. His parents accused Metro officials of being negligent for failing to keep at least one escalator working on June 8, 1998.
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By Tom Dunkel | August 11, 2004
Several weeks ago, Sally Murray took an incredible trip, and like any adventurous traveler couldn't wait to talk about it. "I went home and told my daughter, `Do you know what I just did?!'" She had ridden all the way to the top of the escalator at Bethesda Metro station. By herself. For mountain climbers, skydivers and other serious daredevils, that doesn't sound like much. But for Murray, who had gotten so skittish about escalators she hadn't been on one in six years, scaling Mount Metro was an inportant step forward in conquering more stubborn fears.
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By Julie Bykowicz | June 18, 2002
The woman injured while riding an escalator Saturday at The Mall in Columbia remained in critical condition at Maryland Shock Trauma Center yesterday, a hospital spokeswoman said. Andrea Albright, 24, a Columbia resident who works at J.C. Penney in the mall, had her head wedged between the store's escalator rail and a low ceiling, authorities said. "We're not 100 percent sure what happened to her," store manager Ken Hornbostel said. It appears Albright was riding up the escalator about 4:40 p.m. and somehow caught her head while leaning over the escalator rail, a Howard County police spokesman said Saturday.
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By FROM STAFF REPORTS | June 17, 2002
In Carroll County Town to increase fines for outdoor water use MANCHESTER - To toughen the town's ban on outdoor water use, Manchester officials have stopped issuing warnings and plan to increase fines from $25 to at least $100 for violators who water lawns or fill swimming pools. The Town Council abolished the practice of issuing warnings at a meeting Tuesday and next will draft an ordinance to adjust the fines, first set in 1988, for inflation. "This is a serious problem, and we need to impose a serious fine that goes along with that problem," said Steven L. Miller, director of public works.
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BY A SUN STAFF WRITER | June 17, 2002
A department store employee injured Saturday at The Mall in Columbia when her head became wedged between the rail of an escalator and a low ceiling remained in critical condition last night at Maryland Shock Trauma Center, authorities said. Andrea Albright, 24, of Cedar Lane in Columbia, an employee of J.C. Penney at the mall, was riding up the escalator and leaning over the rail about 4:40 p.m. when her head became caught, according to police and fire officials. It took rescue personnel about 20 minutes to free the unconscious woman.
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By Neal R. Peirce | April 11, 1999
EVERYONE likes the spunky generation of community development corporations -- CDCs -- that have dared, like little sailboats on stormy waters, to buck the head winds of urban poverty and bring fresh life to America's imperiled inner-city neighborhoods.But have they made a difference? Could lightly funded community development groups, realistically, have been expected to succeed against the frightening riptides of our times?Grim reality says the American sprawl machine's been sewering our cornfields, sucking development outward.