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World Safe Crossing Day leads today's complete edition for United States.
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A day for roads, crosswalks, signals, ferry landings, station platforms, and the care people owe one another in motion.
In Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine, the leaf-peepers arrive. They drive slowly on two-lane roads, stop in the middle of the highway to take photographs, and fill every bed and breakfast from Bennington to Bar Harbor. The locals are patient. The leaves are worth it. In the South, the equinox means the temperature drops from 97 to 93. In Texas, it means the temperature drops from 105 to 100. Fall in Texas is a suggestion, not a season.