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...than most Houses from the Yard. But as much as people complain about the distance to the Yard, it’s really only a shuttle ride away from everything. The Quad is its own tight community—Currier and Pforzheimer are both only a 10- or 20-foot dash away—and it has its own gym, the Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center, where you can almost always find a machine when the Cabot gym cardio equipment is in use. The Quad also gives you access to a lot of cool places that most River House residents never...
...Sacco explains in the prologue, is a senior figure in Hamas later assassinated by an Israeli rocket. And in the course of his investigation, award-winning cartoonist-reporter Sacco, who has published works on Bosnia and the Palestinian territories, makes a convincing case that these two mass killings - "foot notes" which rated only a few sketchy lines in UN dispatches and press reports of the day - are key to understanding the despair and rage of 1.5 million Palestinians trapped inside Gaza today...
Every Thursday morning, Calvin Miller waits for a 39-foot blue and white van to pull up on 577 Washington Street in Codman Square, Dorchester for his weekly primary care check...
Evolutionarily speaking, it may have been a helpful survival tactic to be able to interpret events speedily so that we are not caught under the foot of a mammoth as we try to understand why it is blundering our way in a fit of rage. Supposedly, in an age when we receive pieces of information at an increasingly rapid pace, we should be getting even better at interpreting them. We are constantly being updated by smartphone, blog, or websites that update in real time. This trend extends beyond Twitter or Facebook—The New York Times website is also...
Bolivia's drivers cannot carry the entire blame for the country's high rate of road deaths. The South American nation is infamous for its hazardous roadways: for more than a decade it boasted the world's most dangerous road, a curvy unpaved one-laner bordered by a 500 foot drop that saw more deaths per traveler per year than any other on the planet. Even Bolivia's "highways" are narrow, hole-ridden and landslide-prone. No wonder some drivers are driven to drink. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...