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...Halloween weekend, and the last thing you want to think about is exams... but for all those non-New Englanders who have been anxiously wondering for what date to buy their plane tickets home, the dates and times for the fall finals have finally been released! Check them out here...
...you’re in the mood to cycle 17 miles to Walden Pond, this event is for you. You can also take the commuter rail home (you know, if cycling 34 miles in one day isn’t your kind of thing). Email ewood@mit.edu if you’re interested...
...oldest annual marathon in the world. In 1908, the marathon course at the London Olympics ran from Windsor Castle to the royal box at the Olympic stadium in White City (some sources say the Princess of Wales wanted her children to watch the start of the race from their home). The length of the race continued varying for years, but in 1924 that specific distance - 42,195 m, or 26 miles, 385 yd. - was made the worldwide standard. (See pictures of extreme marathons...
...dying auto industry, failing schools, rampant unemployment and a home foreclosure crisis: Detroit has no shortage of ills, but in recent years it has made progress combating the city's notorious tradition known as Devil's Night, the period leading up Halloween each year when scores of buildings would be torched. Yet earlier this month, when nearly a dozen vacant homes were set afire in the span of a weekend, authorities here feared the worst: The real estate crisis that has hit Detroit particularly hard would mean a resurgence of Devil's Night. (See pictures from the fight against Devil...
...home congressional district, New York's 23rd, may cover 14,000 sq. mi. of what's known as the North Country, but in many ways, it's one big small town. With a population of just over 650,000 - most of whom are white and working- or middle-class - the key issues in the rural district that sprawls across the northeast part of the state are typically things like the future of the local Army base, falling milk prices and whether anyone can ever lure enough jobs back to the area to replace those that were lost when the region...