Good week, bad week: Times Square vendors, overly cautious bomb squad

The World

We join with The Week Magazine to take a look back at the best and the worst of last week. Following the foiled terrorist attempt in New York, the past seven days were pretty good for Times’ Square street vendors, but not so great for an overly cautious bomb squad in Lake Mary, Fla.

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