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...What saves God's Pocket from flighty sensationalism is its impressive ballast of local color. The fictional neighborhood named in the title is a white, working-class enclave in South Philadelphia that seems all too real: narrow houses, streets, lives; a place where the Hollywood Bar, the social hub of the area, does "half its business before noon." Some of the novel's best times are spent at the Hollywood. Mickey hears a drunken woman praise his deceased stepson: "He was a nice youngster. He never broke into nobody's house in the neighborhood...
...number of these new Hub residents have found havens in Cambridge neighborhoods like Central Square and North Cambridge...
...Whiteface Mountain in New York. On Camels Hump, a major peak in Vermont's Green Mountain range, and Mount Mitchell in North Carolina, the highest peak in the East, red spruce are losing their foliage and dying, leaving barren patches on the once lush slopes. Says Botanist Hub Vogelmann of the University of Vermont: "There are some pretty big holes in the forest...
...scary though--what if the Red Sox, by some random act of God, were actually to deliver the goods to their demented followers? The very frustration that defines the existence of these types would be resolved. They would have no more reason to exist. Jonestown II in the Hub...
...USGS study on volcanic risks points out, the violence that has racked the U.S. in the past is likely to happen again. This time, however, the consequences could be far more serious. Mammoth Lakes and many of the West's other volcano zones are now the hub of busy recreation centers, many of whose residents are only vaguely aware of the peril that may be building in the ground beneath them. It will be up to the scientists to give them accurate forewarnings of he danger...