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...soaring $75 million Alamillo Bridge, part of $10 billion invested in the fair and new transportation facilities, is an inspired architectural monument. But to those who live in El Vacie's shacks, cubist contraptions of plywood and cardboard, it is an affront. After years of delay, the government only last week began to install 36 flimsy prefabricated homes -- far short of the number needed to house the barrio's 100 families, who live without toilets or running water and cook on open fires. "The rats are eating us!" complains Alvarina Roza Jimenez, mother of eight, holding up her daughter...
Look for the tell-tale signs ofgentrification--the too-freshly painted fireescapes and Volvos parked along the street as youleave the North End. Then cross the Charles Riverto the predominantly Irish Charlestown and theBunker Hill Monument, a 220-foot obelisk thatcommemorates one of the first battles of theRevolutionary...
...enough of trail tours? The BlackHeritage Trail begins at the Shaw-54th RegimentMemorial in Boston Common. This monument honorsthe first regiment of Black volunteers from thenorth to fight in the Civil War, as well as theircolonel, Harvard College graduate Robert GouldShaw (played by Matthew Broderick in Hollywood'sversion of the tale, Glory...
THEY'VE BEEN SAYING IT FOR EIGHT CENTURIES, BUT this time it's really true: the Leaning Tower of Pisa could fall down any minute. The white marble monument, which now leans 16.5 ft. off center at the top, has been closed to tourists for two years while an international panel of experts came up with a plan for saving it. Everybody has ideas, including a Florentine who suggested erecting a massive statue of Pisa's patron, St. Ranieri, to hold up the bell tower, but engineers finally decided on a more mundane approach. About 800 tons of lead ingots...
...embarrassing incidents became less frequent but did not end. In February 1990, Lujan visited New Mexico's Petroglyph National Monument. There he stunned local officials gathered around the centuries-old "Dancing Kachina Petroglyph" when he bent down beside an adjacent rock and scratched it with a knife. The Secretary was asked to refrain. Lujan explains the incident without a trace of embarrassment: "There was this whole discussion going on, which I knew was not correct, about how hard the rock was, that there must have been enormously sharp instruments to make these petroglyphs. I just took out my knife...