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Longwood: 1. Boston neighborhood home to Harvard Medical School and the Museum of Fine Arts. 2. Where swine flu infiltrated Harvard; the Dental School will never be the same. 3. A half-hour’s ride away on the free M2 bus. 4. What you will curse when you realize the one book you really need is at Countway Library...
...reach by the Red Line. There you’ll find Boston Common, where you can trek the Freedom Trail, skate at Frog Pond during the winter, or watch a movie at Loews Cinema. If you wait for the E train, you can ogle at paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts or the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Be careful at Park Street, since not every train that comes will take you to your desired destination...
...next stop is Antarctica. Indeed, when not exploring, Australia's Antarctic flagship - an impressive research-and-resupply vessel named Aurora Australis - is usually docked here. To familiarize yourself with Australia's (and Hobart's) involvement with the icy continent, visit the riveting "Islands to Ice" exhibit at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, tel: (61-3) 6211 4177. Don some funky glasses, watch a spectacular 3-D film that lets you wander across the ice, bracing against the katabatic winds while imagining how awful it must have been for the likes of Scott, Amundsen, Shackleton and Australian Antarctic explorer...
...likeness is featured in the Madame Tussauds wax museum in London. He also was awarded an honorary doctorate from Britain's Bedfordshire University in July. (Read "When Superstars Feud...
DIED Though his renovation of the Guggenheim Museum in New York City drew mixed reviews, Modernist architect Charles Gwathmey, 71, counted among his fans Hollywood A listers like Jerry Seinfeld and Steven Spielberg, for whom he designed lavish homes...