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...finished by 1998, then 2000, and then 2002. The current estimate is 2004, but many Bostonians agree that they'll be dealing with the Dig for at least another 10 years. The entire cost of this monstrous public works project--the biggest engineering feat since the Panama Canal--is $10.8 billion; 70 percent being funded by the generous U.S. government after years of haggling and 30 percent by exploited Massachusetts tax payers watching the prices of highway tolls skyrocket over the years...
...game itself? All it takes is a phone call and $20 to $75 depending on how well you want to see the puck and how much money you want to save for the after-party. Pre-game it at Fours Boston at 166 Canal St., North Station T-stop. Then head over to the rink. Just be sure you root for the right team. 7:30 p.m., Fleet Center Call (617)931-2000 for tickets...
...plus crowd, Adelson sees thousands of free-spending conventioneers in his Venetian. The initial $1.2 billion phase, set to open next April, will feature 3,000 luxury suites, a convention center second only to Chicago's in size, and a pricey shopping mall with a 1,200-ft. canal running through it--on the site of Frank Sinatra's old haunt, the Sands...
...bend them. Serra eventually found one in Maryland. All that tonnage (literally: the aggregate weight of the seven Torqued Ellipses comes to nearly 400 tons, giving this a claim to be the most ponderous one-man show in history) had to be shipped to Los Angeles via the Panama Canal and set up inside the Geffen Contemporary. The plates couldn't be craned in through its doors, and so, recalls the museum's director, Richard Koshalek, "we took the direct way. We just cut a big hole in the back wall and had the trucks drive straight in." Then, with...
...light and of hope," says David Jack, who heads the Waterfront Project, one of the world's most ambitious dockland developments. The 15-year, $500 million undertaking, which includes five-star hotels, restaurants, theaters and craft markets, will eventually extend into the city's foreshore via a negotiable canal access system...