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...noted that the Golf II class dates back as far as 20 years, meaning that the mystery vessel could be one of the oldest-and perhaps most decrepit-in the Soviets' 127-sub Pacific Fleet. The presence of that formidable force has made the Sea of Japan a hub of subsurface activity and, not coincidentally, the scene of a growing number of underwater accidents. Last week's incident took place not far from where the U.S. aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk collided with a Soviet nuclear-powered submarine in March...
...quite, but it did reach at least to American farmers. At the time they did most of their shopping at inefficient, local general stores, where they paid high prices and had limited choices. But a growing rail and post office network, with Chicago as the hub, was beginning to turn farmers into a cohesive market. Montgomery Ward had published a catalog for them since the 1870s, but Richard Sears perfected the technique beyond anyone's imagination. Using the expanding rail system that he knew so well and capitalizing on the rapid growth of post-Civil War America, Sears turned...
...Boston Globe, not wishing to be left out of the action, recently finishes a 16-month series on Hub racism, which snags a Pulitzer because it is too massive and sprawling...
...within the Hub's newly affluent corridors of power that change must take place In discouraging the city's residents, be they any ethnic or racial group, from working and living in Boston, the City puts its future in peril...
EXTRA CREDIT: Hub Kittle...