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Since that time we have seen what may be the biggest urban real estate boom in American history, rents in places like Boston and Cambridge skyrocketing out of control as the white-flight trends of the 1970s and ’80s have reversed themselves and cities have become awash in college students, young professionals and wealthy middle-aged people looking for a shorter commute. With no more rent control, the Bay State has become the most expensive state in the country for renters...
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Return with us to those thrilling days of yesteryear: the '80s, when a fedora-topped, whip-cracking, ophidiophobic archaeologist kindled the innocent spirit of antique adventure-movie serials in a generation of kids who had never been to a Saturday matinee. After Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, producer George Lucas and director Steven Spielberg are hatching a fourth episode, to star the sexagenarian Harrison Ford. But why wait for that film? Relive the first three in a spiffy new DVD boxed set from Paramount Home Video...
...WELBURN Design Driver Now steering styling at General Motors is Welburn, 52, who was promoted in October to the top design job. Welburn is charged with advancing the work of his predecessor, Wayne Cherry, who rescued GM from the bland boxes it produced in the '80s and early '90s. Welburn recently headed design of GM trucks and SUVs, overseeing the look of the hot Cadillac Escalade and Hummer H2, among other vehicles. Welburn's passion is muscle cars: he created an Oldsmobile that sustained 257 m.p.h.--a world record...
Over a decade after the Soviet Union fell, the U.N. is still working within the framework best fit to ensure the same stagnation that during the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s ensured a cold war and world peace. Stuck in this warp zone, with the Security Council’s veto-bearing members unwilling to vote themselves out of power, the U.N. may well be a dead end for those who would reform decision-making to be pro-active instead of inert...