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Your fashion sense. You used to laugh at duckboots. After the puddle in front of Wadsworth House ate your suede boots, you made an emergency trip to Freeport, Maine. There's no use in trying to look effortless and easygoing in a city that has snow...
...biracial boy before she came out. He is now 18 and heterosexual. Growing up, he sympathetically compared her situation to the racial prejudice he encountered. When he was 12, she recalls, he said gently, "Mom, you know, it's not an accepted thing." Will Dixon-Gray, who lives in Freeport, New York, with his adopted son Ed, 16, says the boy was uncomfortable for a long time with his father's status: he wouldn't use the word gay and wouldn't tell classmates because he expected them to pick on him. Now 16, Ed says, "If it bothers some...
...Freeport, Maine, McDonald's designed a fast food restaurant that doesn't look like one. The chain could similarly be made to construct a restaurant sensitive to Harvard Square's architectural and visual traditions. Such respect for the environment is more than can be said for, say, Holyoke Center or William James Hall...
...breast cancer. And a study at the University of Arizona Cancer Center found that three to six months of daily beta carotene pills dramatically reduced precancerous mouth lesions in 70% of patients. Pharmaceutical giant Hoffmann- La Roche is so enamored with beta carotene that it plans to open a Freeport, Texas, plant next year that will churn out 350 tons of the nutrient annually, or enough to supply a daily 6 mg capsule to virtually every American adult...
...central concern in American objections to Japan is that of fairness. Americans entertain a profound respect for the talents of the Japanese, for their hard work, their intelligence, their high standards of quality. James Kielt is a retired envelope and paper salesman in Freeport, N.Y., who served in the Navy during World War II. Says he, remembering the Mitsubishi fighters and bombers of the Pacific war: "I probably would have trouble buying a Mitsubishi." He drives a Toyota Tercel. Says his friend John Wood, a retired retail chain executive: "The Japanese are probably more industrious than we. And I think...