One place cancelled, another claimed last-minute construction work, and yet another discovered faulty electrical wiring that demanded sudden attention.
Another discovered 27 stress fractures in her spine from pounding her still-growing body day in and day out.
Another discovered too late that a stinkbug had percolated in her coffeemaker, along with her morning brew.
Another, discovered by amateur astronomers using the Web site Planet Huntersorg, has four suns (it orbits two, which are in turn orbited by two more).org
The 10th-century fibulae excavated from a funerary chamber in the northern town of Pskov and another discovered in Kiev, now the capital of Ukraine, are no different from costume jewels of this type found in Scandinavia.
Such was the case on Friday morning along a quiet stretch of 75th Street on the Upper West Side, where one hapless motorist after another discovered the dreaded orange envelopes on their windshields, clutched by folded wiper blades.
