The Mutter Museum, nestled inside a perfectly noble looking old academic building, is a gloriously jumbled collection of medical specimens exhibiting the dizzying number of horrible things that can go wrong with the human body...
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I wish I could show you more of the PPG skycraper - one of Pittsburgh's
landmarks, but unfortunately, an over-zealous security guard chased me away - apparently, photographing
internationally known landmarks is becoming somewhat illegal in the
USA
He said I could still photograph
friends in front of the building,
as long as not too much of the building was in the picture.
I believe, the technical term here is "retarded".
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The video store, though a relatively new arrival in the land of shops
and other places you inevitably go to exercise your wallet, has already
been ingrained - fully accepted - into our daily lives, our routines.
"I did some gardening for a while," is more likely to raise a questioning
eyebrow than the admission that lacking anything else to do, you went
over to the video store to rent a movie.
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