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...late-summer afternoon on Larchmont Boulevard in Los Angeles' leafy Hancock Park neighborhood, and small clusters of girls gathered in front of Jamba Juice are sweeping the sidewalk with their floor-length skirts. Their T shirts are oversize and piled on in layers. And their sunglasses, with lenses nearly the size of CDs, cover their teenage faces. On the next block, boys with shaggy hair below their ears, wearing rock T shirts from bands that were performing before most of their parents could drive, practice tricks on skateboards...
Less than eight years after amassing over 2,000 square miles of forest land, Harvard will sell two-thirds of its holdings in the United States and New Zealand—a combined area larger than Rhode Island—to the Hancock Timber Resource Group (HTRG), the Boston-based investment firm announced Wednesday...
HTRG is the world’s largest company specializing in investing in forests for institutions, with more than $2.5 billion in land holdings in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. It is owned by Manulife Financial, the Canadian company that bought John Hancock Financial Services...
...Ruth, Gehrig, Mantle, and Joe but Ruth (as a pitcher), Foxx, Williams, and Dom. The group recounted bygone Boston glories and dared to predict future victories. From such hushed intercourse, movements are born. These renegades with their neckties, bow ties, wingtips, and dedication to the Sox weren?t unlike Hancock, Revere, and the gang, huddling in that tavern in Lexington and banging down whatever it was Sam Adams was brewing back in April...
From his dusty work yard in the northwest Massachusetts hamlet of Hancock (colonial, of course, incorporated in 1776), Babcock has mapped virtually every colonial barn standing, or collapsing, in New England. Racing against mildew and termites, he buys more barns than he can afford from farmers glad to be rid of debris. "It's bad business, but I don't know how to stop," he explains without remorse. "I'm barn rich, cash poor...