Word: bostons
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...much richer than the past, somewhat troubled decade might indicate. The conservatory draws some of its reputation from being the only arboretum of its kind designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, one of America's first and greatest landscape architects. He also planned New York's Central Park and Boston's "Emerald Necklace"--the series of parkways lining Brookline Avenue and Route One--as well as the Charles River Basin. Because of Olmsted's reputation as a landscape architect, architecture schools from around the world send students and faculty to view the grounds and examine plants they have been studying...
...Harvard Graduate School of Design brings its students to the arboretum, as does Simmons, Wheelock and Boston University, which use the property to train their education students in botanical teaching and other sciences...
...possible answer to this question is that the students are at Phillips Brooks House (PBH). More than 1000 undergraduates work in local hospitals, tutor inner-city children, or contribute to other needed social services in the Boston area...
...BOSTON--An estimated 2.5 million people in North and South America are already infected with the AIDS virus, and some parts of the hemisphere may be facing "a massive epidemic" of AIDS, health experts warned yesterday...
Bussewitz, in his tours, emphasizes the proximity of nearby Boston and the Blue Hills south of the arboretum. In the city, he says, it's easy to forget just how close nature is and just how fast its beauty is disappearing...