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Arboretum officials presented plans this month to add more than 50,000 square feet of labs, offices and classroom space to Harvard’s botanical outpost in the Roslindale and Jamaica Plain neighborhoods of Boston...
Many residents of Roslindale and Jamaica Plain see the arboretum’s 265 acres—one of the largest open spaces in Boston—as a natural resource for their community...
...best overall measure of women's athleticism on the planet. And according to International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) rankings, Kluft is now the best. Born in V?xjö, she began competing at 15. After setting a new record score at the World Junior Championships in Jamaica last July, she slipped effortlessly up to senior competition less than a month later and won gold at the European championship, setting another new junior record ahead of such seasoned campaigners as Sabine Braun of Germany and Belarus' Natalya Sazanovich. The IAAF dubbed her a "rising star" and a Swedish national radio poll...
...riddle. At the time, I never needed to take the train; my mother would drive me the five minutes to elementary school, and I wouldn’t have to meet up with friends in the city until high school, years later. So the thick, tan-painted pillars along Jamaica Avenue held up not only train tracks, but also a mysterious world—one literally parallel to my own, but full of details and experiences unlike any I would know down here...
...would hit me in the face. I could look up and see the sky. It was usually empty—I think a flock of geese may have flown overhead once—but there was something so satisfying about being able to see the sky directly above Jamaica Avenue, unobstructed by that hulking strip of steel; it’s a small thing, though something I hadn’t been able to do at all during my childhood. I’d approach the edge of the platform and look down through the wooden ties of the tracks...