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...BUSINESS Talk about a young and vibrant economy. Nearly three-quarters of the nation's 9 million companies are no more than a quarter-century old. But let's not ignore the hardy perennials. Longfellow's Wayside Inn, founded in the early 1700s and probably the oldest homegrown business, still welcomes guests in Sudbury, Mass. Below, a durable-biz list...
When dinosaurs ruled the earth, Quetzalcoatlus and its cousins dominated the skies. Yet ever since their fossils were first discovered in the 1700s and mistaken for strange marine creatures or bats, pterosaurs--literally, winged lizards--have remained a perplexing enigma. Did these extraordinary beasts take off by running on the ground or by dropping from a tree? Did they energetically flap their wings or deploy them as passive sails? Did they, like seabirds, nurture their young in large colonies, or did they lead a solitary life...
...speculate about it, the more one speculates. Within a few hours, when it is clear that none of the 200-plus people who were on TWA Flight 800 are going to be found alive, the mood of the town is laden with sorrow. East Moriches (established early 1700s, population a little more than 4,000) is about to become America...
...jail than in jail.'" The practice is probably legal under a common-law doctrine allowing jurors to override the law if their own sense of justice demands it. But it is a radical act, used historically to undermine an unpopular authority like the British crown in the 1700s. Butler knows this. Of Baltimore, where nearly 60% of young black men are under court supervision, he says, "African Americans perceive that as a police state...
...debated buildings house 14 tenants, including two Harvard Square landmark restaurants, The Tasty and Wursthaus. They were constructed in the late 1700s, joined by a single wooden facade in 1896 and are listed on the National Register of Historic Places...