12.14pm BST Thousands already gathering Our reporter on the ground in Cairo Patrick Kingsley reports that even though an estimated 20,000 people have already gathered, the atmosphere appears less tense than before: Today has been billed as another tense day of protests and counter-protests by pro-Morsi crowds, and their secular opponents.
The "Ice Age" movies "come close to inspiring a new theory of prehistoric extinction: All those species clearly died from the hot air that gathered in the atmosphere as a result of their inability to shut up for even a minute," A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times in July.
In his visit to New York (from his home in Vermont), Mr. Irving gathered more information and atmosphere on the subject.
Thai Tida, Lambertville There's good solid food, efficient service and a happy crowd, all gathered in a homey atmosphere at David and Suttida Brown's Thai Tida.
Moments earlier the crowd of locals and tourists had been gathered in a festive atmosphere to mark France's 14 July bank holiday with the traditional fireworks display and concert.
The nation's governors gathered today in an atmosphere of deepening concern, confronting persistent revenue shortfalls, which many said would be aggravated by the turmoil on Wall Street, and the rising costs of providing health care for the poor and preventing terrorist attacks.
But the game remains far more entrenched in many rural communities like this one in Oklahoma, where cockfighting is legal and where on Friday night 200 people gathered in a carnival atmosphere to watch roosters tear each other apart and to bet on their fates.
Time magazine called him "a refreshing reminder, in the somewhat fetid atmosphere that has gathered around the pseudo amateurs of U.S. sports, that winning football is not the monopoly of huge hired hands taking snap courses at football foundries".
An organizer, Cal Folger Day, 23, who called Mr. Cannon "an indefatigable host," said she preferred to hold events there instead of in a bar or at a theater because she wanted to be in an atmosphere where people gathered primarily to listen to one another, rather than to engage in commerce.
In one, people dressed as the world leaders waved to the journalists and police officers and the locals, all gathered to drink in the atmosphere.
