The Washington Post, July 24th, 1993
When the summer sun sets, the city awakens and the suburbs spring to life. The temperature, above 90 on most afternoons this month, drops by 15 or 20 degrees. Liberated from their air-conditioned prisons, people come out to jog, stroll, picnic and window-shop, take in an outdoor concert or gaze at the stars. They seek solitude on quiet riverbanks and fellowship on busy boulevards, reclaiming sidewalks and parks they had surrendered to the oppressive daytime heat. To be sure, there are some crime-plagued neighborhoods that remain off-limits to all but the bravest of night revelers. But elsewhe...
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