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...spent a year checking out Seattle, Phoenix and Las Vegas, then bet on Reno. His employees took some persuading. Mohidul Saad, 38, a software engineer, learned of the impending move this past summer. The Bangladeshi native and his family had grown attached to their ethnic community in the Bay Area and thought of Reno as a dust-choked gambling town. They have since changed their minds. Weeks ago the Saads moved into a large home with a garden and pool--a far cry from the modest town house they had planned to buy in San Francisco--and are even meeting...
...sell. Ivy League hometowns come in two varieties: bucolic small towns whose postcard streets are overrun with bed-and-breakfasts, all-vegan cafes and Williams-Sonomas (Ithaca, Princeton), and famous big cities theoretically inhabited by yuppies and sitcom characters, even if the actual neighbors have to be kept at bay with swipe cards and rent-a-cops (New York, Philadelphia). New Haven doesn’t do bucolic. New Haven has no elegant skyscrapers or swooping, glittery bridges which can be artfully photographed for the covers of admissions brochures. The closest we?...
...officer assisted the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority with a report of a robbery at the University Health Services Emergency Room...
Bear tries to keep thoughts of mortality at bay, not an easy thing to do when comrades are dying daily: 16 U.S. soldiers in Fallujah perished last week when a Chinook helicopter carrying them was shot down by what American military officials believe was a surface-to-air missile; six more soldiers died last Friday when their Black Hawk helicopter was brought down, apparently by a rocket-propelled grenade; an additional 10 soldiers died in other attacks over the course of the week. "It's not all-consuming," says Bear of his fears...
...formal music curriculum three years ago. Now it hosts a small but rollicking before-school guitar class run by Little Kids Rock, a nonprofit organization that doles out free instruments and lessons in popular music in more than 120 public schools in Newark, New York City, the San Francisco Bay Area and Memphis, Tenn. At a time when already anemic school arts budgets are dwindling, the unconventional program is thriving and enjoying a bit of fortuitous buzz. One of the fall's hottest movies, School of Rock, starring Jack Black as a head-banging substitute teacher, is spreading the mantra...