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...been perfected by the time Oliver Wendell Holmes spoke of the Massachusetts statehouse as-get this-the "hub of the solar system." The same spirit lingers yet in Boston and was glimpsed this year when the city exploded with indignation at a proposal to move its Gilbert Stuart portraits of George and Martha Washington to Washington, D.C. Horrors, said Boston Mayor Kevin White: "Everybody knows Washington has no culture...
...hub is Denver, a city caught up in a runaway boom caused by the sudden influx of energy corporations. Denver's growth, writes TIME Correspondent William Blaylock, is changing the face of the mile-high city, the region and the lives of its residents at a dizzying rate that pleases many but worries some. Blaylock's report...
...powers and the title Chief of Staff went to his top aide, 34-year-old Hamilton Jordan. The change eliminated the last vestiges of Carter's experiment with "Cabinet government" and a staff that he used to compare to the "spokes of the wheel," with himself at the hub. His original intention had been to give associates easy access to the Oval Office. Soon after the election, Press Secretary Jody Powell announced that Carter thought "it was not in his interest to have a single chief of staff," a title that had special political significance because the memory of Nixon...
...proposed criminal justice center will cooperate with the Law School on many issues as "the hub of a University-wide program in public policy management," Jackson said, adding that the K-School will provide links to the public sector...
Canada's Dempster Highway, named after a turn-of-the-century Mountie who made a heroic attempt to rescue a stranded patrol, was begun 22 years ago by the Canadian government to spur the economic development of the Yukon and Northwest Territories. The road starts at Dawson, hub of the Klondike's 1890s gold rush, laces through the deep green forested valleys of the North Klondike and climbs the rugged Ogilvie Mountains, where it peels off in to rolling alpine meadows and the tundra beyond. At the 253.7-mile mark, a simple sign announces...