Yet the reality, increasingly, is that they can't and don't leave the bubble -- the bubble moves right along with them, except that it is no longer merely a bubble, it is a heavily fortified multiple-city-block mobile bunker.
Famous for its size -- the warehouse-like building stretches for an entire city block -- this location is just one of five Powell's stores in the city.
He made block-by-block maps of the city, color-coded by the hospital costs of its residents, and looked for the hot spots.
Last year, for similar reasons, they took control of Barrancabermeja, an oil city, after months of block-by-block combat with guerrillas.
Jinze turned out to be a bustling provincial township within the city limits, filled with grimy concrete-block housing and shabby stores.
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Maris couldn't walk a city block without some new passer-by asking if that was Project Glass, how it worked and, of course, whether they could try it on.
The city has agreed to turn a 10-block stretch of Broadway into a four-day party to mark Super Bowl XLVIII, which will be played in 2014 at MetLife Stadium in the nearby Meadowlands.
These immigrants, mostly from Latin America, make up most of the block-long application queue at city hall.
Then the designers carefully add the smallest details, using street-level videotape and photographs of every city block, building and storefront.
Peach facade and all, Straya is increasing the city's sales-tax revenues and feeding new life into a faltering block.
Low2No plans to be a mixed-use eco-development in Helsinki, Finland about the size of a large city block.
In Mumbai, three workers at a bridge-construction site at the city's airport were killed after a concrete block fell on them in February.
His bustling style caused problems for the City backline, and Croatian right-back Vedran Corluka had to make an athletic block from a Scharner effort.
The new apartments will replace the 10-storey tower block, The Fosters, which was seen across the city on the hills of High Green.
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In another sign of progress, city officials said they are beginning the process of reopening to the public the six-block site around the bombing.
Later this spring, officials said, a second smartphone app will debut, giving drivers and the city near real-time information about the probability of finding a parking space on each block.
With Foster standing up well to block Tevez's effort when one-on-one, Manchester City were left to rue their wasteful finishing when Birmingham grabbed a fully deserved equaliser in the 77th minute.
Later this spring, officials said, a second smartphone app will make its debut, giving drivers and the city near-real-time information about the probability of finding a parking space on each block.
It also closed the private Spanish Hospital, a complex that covers an entire city block, after waters rushed into the basement, cutting power and destroying X-ray machines and other diagnostic equipment.
The six-block-long Sunset Strip is located in West Hollywood, a separate incorporated city within Los Angeles.
In Los Angeles' tony Century City district JMB owns a large block of land that it may soon develop into a 38-story tower, to be dubbed Constellation Place.
The whole scene played out in the midst of the Las Vegas tourist hub, closing a block and a half of the well-known boulevard near some of the Nevada city's biggest draws -- Caesars Palace, the Bellagio, Bally's and the Flamingo.
The whole scene played out February 21 in the middle of the Las Vegas tourist hub, closing a block and a half of the well-known boulevard near some of the Nevada city's biggest draws -- Caesars Palace, the Bellagio, Bally's and the Flamingo.
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Beverage- and restaurant-industry executives have begun examining their options, including a possible lawsuit, to block the city from instituting a ban.
They might also bow to union pressure to block Walmart from entering the local market, flouting polls showing that two-thirds of the city want the retailer's low prices.
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