Word: newtons
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...figure, a study conducted with different measures published in 2000 put the total at 1.35 million children living in homelessness each year. The numbers are likely to get worse as the economy continues to decline. "We know the numbers are going to skyrocket," says Ellen Bassuk, president of the Newton, Mass.-based Center and an associate professor of psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School...
...that thing is a mall called Xanadu, located in East Rutherford. The name is a nod to the heavenly summer home immortalized by English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge: "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan/ A stately pleasure-dome decree." It's also the name of a ridiculous 1980 Olivia Newton-John movie involving roller-skating muses and disco. Slated to open in August, Xanadu, a wannabe shopping paradise, will be a 2.4 million-sq.-ft. retail and entertainment complex located 3½ miles from the Empire State Building, across the Hudson River at the intersection of the New Jersey Turnpike...
...bike-share should branch out from Boston proper—certainly into Cambridge, but also into the closest suburbs, such as Newton. The farther the program’s reach, the more minds it will change, and the more car trips it will save. It will also do wonders to relieve congestion on Boston’s infamously crowded crosstown arteries and non-square squares...
...with anything else at Harvard, this is not all about the students. Where in this policy is consideration of our faculty? Some faculty may be lucky enough to reside in Cambridge, but what about those who have built their nests further out, with houses in Newton, flats in Peabody, and apartments in Winchester? Instead of having a day full of delays, distractions, and slush in the hallways, Harvard should make its snow day policy more lenient for convenience, peace of mind, and respect of a New England staple...
After graduation, he taught history for three years at Newton South High School in Mass., but returned to Harvard soon after to work as a special assistant to then University President Lawrence H. Summers and to coordinate the Undergraduate Teaching Program...