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...Sandra Graham and Rosa Parks Alternative Public School on 15 Upton Street, just west of Central Square, offers one choice. The school emerged in its present form as a result of the 1981 merger of the nationally touted magnet school, the Cambridge Alternative Public School, and the neighborhood district school, the Webster School. The school, now housed in Webster School's building, is the teaching center for 370 Cambridge children from kindergarten through eighth grade...
...snowy Friday afternoon, a massive explosion rocked the foundation of the Twin Towers of the Trade Center in lower Manhattan -- the second tallest buildings in the world and a magnet for 100,000 workers and visitors each day. The bomb was positioned to wreak maximum damage to the infrastructure of the building and the commuter networks below. And the landmark target near Wall Street seemed chosen with a fine sense for the symbols of the late 20th century. If the explosion, which killed five people and injured more than 1,000, turns out to be the work of terrorists...
...infected Haitian refugees and other immigrants could land in the taxpayers' lap. According to the government's own estimate, the cost of treating the average AIDS patient from diagnosis to death is $100,000. "Our medical care, social-services net and free public education are a magnet for immigrants," argues Dan Stein, executive director of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a conservative lobbying group in Washington. "We can't bring people here en masse for medical treatment...
...WELL is a magnet for cyberpunk thinkers, and it is there, appropriately enough, that much of the debate over the scope and significance of cyberpunk has occurred. The question "Is there a cyberpunk movement?" launched a freewheeling on-line FLAME-fest that ran for months. The debate yielded, among other things, a fairly concise list of "attitudes" that, by general agreement, seem to be central to the idea of cyberpunk. Among them...
Thirty-eight years after opening on Las Vegas' neon-lit Strip, the famed Dunes Hotel has closed for good. The Dunes casino helped nurture Las Vegas' popularity -- and notoriety as a magnet for sharp-dressed mobsters. Its arching marquee became a relic in an age of larger resorts. Owner Steven Wynn plans to raze it and erect a new $400 million casino and family park...