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...would create open space and parks in Boston's downtown and East Boston sections...
...Eric Utne (it rhymes with chutney and means, roughly, "far out" in his ancestral Norwegian). To meet that goal, Utne and his small band of editors sift through nearly 3,000 fringe publications stuffed on shelves and in wire bins in their cozy offices in a bohemian corner of downtown Minneapolis. They peruse the conservative American Spectator and the Match!, a magazine for anarchists; Processed World, a journal for dissident office workers; and such mainstream periodicals as Esquire in an effort to splice together chronicles of new trends and ideas. Samples of recent reprintings include an article calling...
...East and West officially proclaimed the end of the cold war at the Paris summit last week, the once unthinkable happened: a Soviet armored vehicle roared across what used to be the Iron Curtain smack into downtown Berlin. Following an argument with his girlfriend, a 20-year-old Soviet soldier from a base in Elstal, west of Berlin, had decided to cool off by taking his ACRV M-1974 artillery-command and reconnaissance vehicle for a spin. About 16 miles down the road, he rumbled into what was formerly West Berlin and headed down the fashionable Kurfurstendamm, hitting several cars...
Nonkosher butchers usually keep a low profile in Israel, supplying meats to Christians and nonobservant Jews. But last week about half a dozen butchers handed out free ham sandwiches in downtown Jerusalem, attracting dozens of amused takers while infuriating others...
...seemingly minor issue: Should Saudi women be allowed to drive their own cars? Two weeks ago, 47 women, most of whom had obtained a driver's license while living abroad, gathered in a supermarket parking lot, dismissed their chauffeurs and then drove themselves in an orderly procession through downtown Riyadh...