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While two such plans would renovate the Larz Anderson Bridge and the Weeks Footbridge, others address the possibility of creating a new crossing. Building a bridge from Winthrop House’s two halls to the current HBS campus is one option. Another is extending the MBTA bus tunnel from Brattle Square to emerge near Harvard Stadium...
Emergency responders, however, make up only part of this constellation of radio stars. My scanner tracks the chatter of taxi transmissions after a Red Sox game and the gastronomic gurgle at McDonald’s restaurants. Even the school bus fleet makes for a fine show. On the first day of school, I listened to dozens of little kids board the wrong buses and forget how to get home. Each time, the dispatchers directed the drivers to return the kids to the schools even if that delayed the next pickup by an hour. Here was a group of people genuinely...
...come to look at everyone differently, thanks to the scanner. The bus drivers, firemen, and police officers I spot during my daily routine transform into the radio personalities on my favorite show. The more I listen, the more I learn about their characters, which is what I love about reporting. I get access to an endless stream of raw information that I can turn into a story. Neither job nor hobby, scanning is my addiction. Whenever I’m out and about I feel the painful sting of withdrawal from my scanner. At the first sound of a siren...
...other proposals suggest constructing a new crossing entirely. One plan would extend the existing MBTA bus tunnel in Harvard and Brattle Squares underneath the Charles to emerge near Harvard Stadium...
...grew up. Its leafy, conservative environs might have contained the lawyer's daughter, had not drama pushed her over the bridge to nida straight out of Presbyterian Ladies' College. At acting school, the most useful tool learned was phonetics, she says, "which basically means if I'm on a bus anywhere in the world and I hear someone talking with a fantastic accent, I can write down on a piece of paper how that person is talking, and later be in that accent...