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Ramon de los Reyes Spanish Dance Theatre: Will present a lecture demonstration combining storytelling with rhythmic dances. John Hancock Hall, 180 Berkeley Street, 10am...
...renowned architect has designed some of America's most acclaimed structures, among them the East Wing of the National Gallery in Washington and the John Hancock Building in Boston. But he had no intention of staying when he came to the U.S. in 1935 at 18 to study engineering at M.I.T. After switching to architecture, he got his degree in 1940 and soon enrolled in the Harvard School of Design. Meanwhile, back in Canton, his father, a member of a wealthy banking family, suggested he not return "until things settle down." They never did, since the war was followed...
Among those who waited up to 20 minutes to get Sills's John Hancock was Charlotte Frazier from Needham, said she looks so much like Sills that people often confuse her for the singer. In fact, Cambridge Police Officer Jack Moynihan--who was assigned to guard the soprano from overzealous fans--said he told Frazier, "I thought you were already here" when she arrived at the Coop...
...first and aim at them over thousands of miles of space. Keith Taggart, a researcher at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, likens the job to shooting out a specific window in New York City's World Trade Center by firing a rifle bullet from the top of the John Hancock Building in Chicago. The sensors also would have to flash back instantaneous assessments of what targets had been hit, so that a battle station would not waste vital seconds aiming a laser or particle beam at a missile or warhead already destroyed...
...Muhm's grandfather came from Germany after the Civil War and lived in a cave in Hancock County, Iowa, and built himself a farm. Muhm's father farmed and his brother does today. In the century they saw all the vicissitudes the "land of excesses" could throw at them and they survived. "The difference now," says Muhm, who is farm editor of the Des Moines Register, "is that land values have dropped so much." Always before land held its value relative to the rest of the economy. Farmers wanted more. Now land is a burden that is destroying them...