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...Vamoose bus company is gearing up to enter the Boston-to-New York market. It says it will bring guaranteed seating, complimentary wireless Internet service, and a stop in Harvard Square to the 215-mile trip. And, of course, a higher price. Beginning Nov. 8, Vamoose will offer one daily round trip from Boston to New York—with a stop in front of Widener Gate. Additional buses will run on Fridays and Sundays, with the exact number determined by customer demand and feedback. Vamoose, a Hasidic-owned company based in New York, is selling one-way tickets...
...start got out well, and I kind of established myself on the outside of the pack in top 10,” Holmquest said. “I probably let the race get away from me a little between the two and the three-mile marks...Looking back, I definitely would’ve wanted to be more aggressive in the middle part of the race.” Freshman Dan Chenoweth finished shortly behind in 16th place with a time of 25:15.8, just shy of an All-Ivy distinction but the top finish by a freshman...
...punishing gusts of the Santa Anas herald cursed weather, days and nights of devilish heat. Should a fire spark in the dry woodlands surrounding the region's cities and suburbs, the winds become a flamethrower, spreading glowing embers half a mile (800 m) or more. The Santa Anas have been midwife to the most destructive wildfires in California's history, from the Great Fire of 1889 to the 2003 disaster that blackened nearly 700,000 acres (280,000 hectares) of forest. Lifelong residents of the state know the Santa Anas and dread them. As Joan Didion has written, "The wind...
...night of Oct. 21 at his home in Rancho Bernardo, he could see smoke, but the fire still seemed far away. Upon awakening early the next morning and turning on the TV, he saw a newscaster reporting in front of a blaze - one that was less than half a mile from Blankenbeckler's house. "It had already burned through an entire neighborhood," he says. "That's when I thought, 'This is real...
...said. “I had to tear my eyes away or I would have just kept staring at her like a crazy person.”The couple didn’t go on their first date until a year later, when Wood took Rossel on a 35-mile bike ride to Walden Pond. That fall, Wood and Rossel enjoyed a blissful courtship, often taking short breaks from work together in the Peabody Museum, where both had offices on the second floor.“She would send me messages telling me to meet her in different parts...