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Voters in the Town of Weston may be seeing less crimson—but more green—after they go to the polls today. The town, with about 11,500 residents, will decide whether to pledge $22.5 million to purchase 62.5 acres of land from Harvard. The land, originally given to the University’s Arnold Arboretum in 1946 by Marion Case, a Weston resident, could be sold to a developer if voters do not approve the measure. The University chose to sell the property “because it has no utility for the Arboretum...
...become urbanized and may not survive in the wild. Activists also complain that in the process of rounding up monkeys, many are injured and babies get separated from mothers. "We have to tackle this another way," says Gautam Grover, head of the protection group Animal Saviour. "We took their land, we took their trees, we took their forests, and now we just want to send them to another forest. We're playing God with this." Too bad the monkeys aren't playing along...
This middle stage was one of large swaths of land and people, countries with nebulous frontiers and boundaries, held together through a decentralized power structure, commerce and common interests...
...little city of Florence (pop. 3,795). Like Flint, Mich., or Orlando, Fla., Florence is a company town. The industry here is prisoners, and the company is the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Twenty years ago, the people of surrounding Fremont County ponied up $160,000 to buy some open land outside Florence, hoping to entice the bureau to build a prison complex as a way to boost the town's economy. Corrections had long been a mainstay in Fremont County; the high desert valley was already home to more than half a dozen prisons. But in the end, Florence...
This performance helped her land a spot on Team Canada. Vaillancourt responded by dominating in her first international game with six points against Kazakhstan, tying a Canadian team record...