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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...
...Awash in ritual and responsibility, the immediate aftermath of death becomes a series of obligations and forced situations, meant to cut through, or at least distract from, the numb and searing emptiness of loss. For us, anecdotes—about her and her sayings and doings, even about our various ordeals in getting to the funeral—become a canon of bittersweet memory, the only way to break the terrible hush...
...Bang Devils, a black-humored novel about a cross-cultural kidnapping gone wrong, is awash in gore. Joints are crushed, cartilage exposed, skulls pulped with crowbars, corpses mutilated, and most of the survivors sport fresh stumps in place of pinky fingers. First-time author Patrick Foss is more than happy to sacrifice lives and digits to keep the plot moving...
DIED. SIR WILFRED THESIGER, 93, indefatigable explorer and travel writer; in London. Born in Addis Ababa, the son of a British diplomat, he established his reputation at age 23 when he discovered the source of East Africa's Awash River, something several men before him perished trying to do. He later became the first Westerner to twice cross Saudi Arabia's vast, uncharted Empty Quarter. The punishing expeditions were chronicled in his best-selling book Arabian Sands. Subsequent years spent living in southern Iraq led to his second acclaimed book, Marsh Arabs. Thesiger continued to risk his life exploring...
...that opposes joining the euro, estimates that it is 10 times the amount received from the government - an astounding sum to spend on an election in this country. With that bankroll, they have shouted yes slogans in every legal form. Though political TV advertising is outlawed, the country is awash in debate. On Stockholm street corners, workers dutifully dispense yes or no pins from little huts. And would-be voters are assaulted by huge hanging banners and billboards: "Better krona in your pocket than euros in your unemployment check," said one billboard erected by the no campaigners. Persson's main...