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...store window. At its foot there's a slapdash cornucopia of consumer goods: radios, a record player, power tools. In the upper half of the frame, which reports a reflection in the window, we see a twilit slice of Main Street, U.S.A., where a trusty lamppost rises like a beacon and a church steeple makes its dogged case for the spiritual life. Now look deeply into the center of the image to find its tiny punch line. A single glowing word, CASHIER, beckons from roughly the point where the picture's diagonals converge, as if to suggest that a ringing...
...Nieman fellowships, which have been handed out annually since 1938, can have a great impact on the careers of the journalists who receive them. “It had a great effect on mine,” said Giles, who was promoted to City Editor at the Akron, Ohio Beacon Journal after completing his fellowship...
...latest development of the ongoing legislative stem cell battle on Beacon Hill, Mass. Governor W. Mitt Romney has decided to make one last effort in attempting to push his anti-cloning agenda...
While the battle between the governor and the state legislature continues to wage on Beacon Hill, Harvard scientists have already moved forward in their efforts to step up stem cell research...
...wasn’t easy growing up in the South Boston, where he learned to deal with tough streets and tougher people. Still, he worked his way up to Suffolk University on Beacon Hill for his bachelor’s degree and then into the police force...