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...students who use it on a regular basis. At peak times—as everyone, of course, knows—there are long lines just to use weights or treadmills. The swimming pool is dark and dingy, and the changing rooms redefine the word skuzzy. The red brick building may appear stately from the outside, but the structure is fundamentally unsuited—in its current configuration, at least—for a modern gym. The MAC is, in short, better suited to an era when workouts involved hefting around medicine balls, not using ellipticals...
...contentious issue of rent control also weighed on some residents, like John Carbone, a plumber by trade who was laying brick for his own driveway...
...will say, 'Hey, let's go find a tomb.'" The rewards of these amateur and often dangerous nocturnal expeditions are evident in Little Su's wardrobe--he has long since traded in baggy peasant garb for snazzy Playboy shirts and gleaming loafers--and in the incongruous mishmash of mud-brick shacks and shiny white-tiled houses with satellite dishes lining the streets of Xiaoli. "You can tell who raided the best tombs just by looking at their houses," says Little Su. The richest citizens even have big-screen TVs and video-game machines. Little Su's favorite game? Tomb Raider...
...following year Gehry won the competition to design the new hall. At the time--a decade before the debut at Bilbao--Gehry was best known as the man who made chain link and plywood into respectable building materials. Lillian, who was nearing 90 and whose taste ran to brick and thatched roofs, was utterly puzzled by the whiplashing scoops of Gehry's design, which he had developed with the help of software used to design fighter planes. To convey what he had in mind, he once brought her a white rose floating in a bowl of water, an image that...
...charming brick townhouse tucked away in one of Boston’s nicest neighborhoods, the Copley Inn offers 21 cozy rooms with fully-equipped kitchenettes. Just minutes away from the Prudential T-stop, the Copley Inn is perfect for parents who want to experience Beantown and don’t want to see their kids stumbling home drunk from Redline...