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Sometimes nature lends a hand. Highway 4 through Brownsville ends with a stop sign that needs to be taken seriously. The asphalt turns into beach and leads straight into the sea. But turn right, and you can drive down the beach as in the old days at Daytona, on fine, hard-packed sand, hugging the Gulf of Mexico. It's a place to appreciate a pristine view--no condos, no concession stands, no concessions at all to anything except the fact that the border begins where the Rio Grande pours into the sea, and so it has to be guarded...
...million donation from Harvard University to the City of Cambridge brought a stalled project to renovate parts of Harvard Square out of limbo. The project plans to make Harvard Square more accessible to pedestrians by targeting five different areas, including the Lampoon Plaza—the asphalt expanse outside of Claverly Hall—and Palmer Street. The project was delayed when the lowest contractors’ bids came in higher than the city’s allotted budget for the program. The donation from Harvard will make up the difference. “We’re ready...
...Black asphalt replaced powdery white snow, humans stood in for dogs, and six-person teams raced 1,049 feet around the MAC Quad in the Alaska Klub’s simulation of the Alaskan Iditarod Saturday. The Klub contest’s winners received 1,049 ounces of beer instead of the generous monetary award for winners of the official Iditarod, a 1,049 mile race from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska that ended on Saturday. Five members of each human Iditarod team ran around the MAC Quad, pulling the ropes attached to a homemade sled on which the sixth team...
...celebrated the grime and buzz of the city’s nightlife. In “Heart in a Cage,” leather-jacketed singer Julian Casablancas rolls on the gritty surface of the city streets while anonymous figures and rushing legs swirl past him. Face rubbing against asphalt, teeth clenched, he mumbles, “I’m stuck in a city but I belong in a field.” Cut to shots of wind-blown Albert Hammond Jr., alone, twiddling his Stratocaster miserably in front of a panoramic cityscape. Drummer Fabrizio Moretti and bassist Nikolai...