Word: metropolitane
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Central Square could become one of the great cultural areas of metropolitan Boston, with its beautiful and talented interracial, multicultural, rainbow community...
...IMAGES AND IDEAS OF RENE Magritte are known to millions of people who do not know him by name. So argues the art historian Sarah Whitfield in her catalog to the retrospective of 168 works by the great Belgian Surrealist that opens at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art this week, and she is certainly right. This accounts for the faint feeling of deja vu that even non- Magritteans sometimes get when looking at his work. Magritte died in 1967, but for the best part of a half-century his images -- or variants on them -- have been used...
...city to suburban Simi Valley, a change that resulted in the selection of a conservative jury with no black members. The defense will not enjoy this advantage in the current case, which could be heard as early as October: the federal jury pool is drawn from the entire metropolitan area, and will probably include some black and Hispanic members with a different perspective on the trustworthiness of the police. Also, the jury may feel pressure not to acquit the officers for fear of sparking a new, possibly angrier wave of rioting...
...Metropolitan District Commission is exploring a proposal for a commuter shuttle that would run along the Charles from Watertown to downtown Boston, Commissioner M. Ilyas Bhatti said yesterday...
...proposed regulations, which become final in November, require 55 new urban areas to begin testing emissions from cars and light trucks by next July. That would bring to 177 the number of regions conducting such tests. And in about 80 metropolitan areas with the worst air problems -- home to more than 60 million automobiles -- the test will be made much tougher. The simple tail-pipe gauge that measures exhaust while the engine idles will be gone. The new test requires a high-tech treadmill device with the Jetson-ish name dynamometer. It collects exhaust while the car idles, accelerates...