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Neighborhoods within neighborhoods, stitched together by community newspapers and block barbeques, make the South End a city unto itself. Chestnut Hill, a four-block square area abutting Interstate 90, enjoys the atmosphere of Beacon Hill—it shares the same illustrious builders as its more prestigious sister community. The Castle Square Housing Project exemplifies new, clean, modern public housing: impatiens cluster on the grounds outside—but the stairways are glass-enclosed, for easy public viewing...
With its hardened shell and oversize antennae, it looks like a cockroach with antlers. But the Asian long-horned beetle is no ordinary menace. It's a hungry tree-eating machine with no natural predators and a hankering for U.S. hardwoods-maple, poplar, birch, elm, ash, horse chestnut and willow. The first specimens came to the U.S. as stowaways in wooden packing crates from China and Hong Kong. The beetles turned up in Brooklyn, N.Y., six years ago, in Chicago two years later and in New York City's Central Park this winter, and have already destroyed thousands of trees...
...school-board members, giving three speeches and dropping by a book signing. And he still has a fund raiser to go to. Cianci shows no sign of the stress, unless you see some significance in the dark circles under his eyes, or the toupee that has gone from chestnut to salt-and-pepper, or the fact that as his Lincoln sedan has zoomed from event to event, Cianci has worked most of the way through a pack of Merit Ultralights while a half-finished glass of Scotch sits forgotten in the cup holder at his elbow and Steve Tyrell croons...
Rolston, though, should find a very optimistic home in Chestnut Hill. Superstar forward Ben Eaves—who missed 15 of BC’s games this season due to injuries and the IIHF World Junior Championships—returns to lead a group that will be energized by one of the nation’s top recruiting classes...
...their war against the government and given a life sentence by a military tribunal in 1996. SENTENCED. CHALASAI YUGALA, 29, widow of Thai Prince Thitipan Yugala; to six years in prison for fatally poisoning her 60-year-old husband with insecticide so she could run off with a chestnut peddler; in Bangkok. Better known as Luk Pla, she told police she only meant to render her husband unconscious so she could flee the palace...