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Elephants, llamas, camels, and zebras walked a two-mile route from the railroad tracks near MIT down to the Longfellow bridge and across to Boston Garden...
...abandonment of Times Beach was attended by a frenzy of attention from newspapers, which was apt, since the town was created by a newspaper in the first place. The St. Louis Star-Times bought the square mile of flatland wedged between the Meramec River and the highway, and in 1925 sold plots for $67.50 each to anyone who agreed to buy a subscription to the paper (which is now defunct). After World War II it became a regular working-class town. Times Beach, like many Midwestern river settlements, had a tang more Southern than latitude alone could explain...
...Half a mile away is the Grove, a neighborhood surrounding Lake Holbrook. The lake is murky; people who live around it say that sometimes it looks orange. Joanne O'Donnell has lived in the Grove since 1964. All five of the O'Donnell children spent time at the Pastures, she says, and four have had endocrine problems. One daughter had a pituitary tumor; another daughter's spleen was removed last year. Mark, her eldest son, at 27 came down with "some virulent, crazy pneumonia that nobody could figure out." Then a large tumor was found on his pancreas...
Crowe took the lead early and passed through one mile in about five minutes. He passed the four-mile mark in 20:44, three seconds ahead of Northeastern's Chris Gorman...
...member of the New York state indoor 4 x 800 meter champion relay team. And last spring she ran a leg of a 4 x 1 mile relay that set a national scholastic record of 20:11 at the Eastern States Track Championships at Hofstra University...