Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have the good fortune to live with two women whose idea of having fun is making up complicated step routines on the T platform while waiting for the inbound train. That being said, they get a little frustrated when it takes me a slow transfer at Park Street to learn five consecutive moves. They tell me that I should stick with writing. After all, you don't have to move your feet much to do that...
...Getting out of Harvard will drain the stress out of anyone. Day and night jaunts to Olmstead's stunning Arnold Arboretum, 265 acres of landscaped beauty with a sweeping view of Boston; a hike through the nine parks of the renowned Emerald Necklace; and a "Waterways Boston Tour" through Jamaica Pond, the Back Bay Fens and downtown secret garden. Perhaps the most notorious, the Freedom Trail leads through Boston's bastions of revolutionary fervor and architectural masterpieces-it's a history lesson in and of itself (Boston Park Rangers, 1010 Mass. Ave.; 635-7383; tours leave from various sites...
...Bust out of Cambridge and drop the H-bomb on blind date. LunchDates (Statler Building, Park Square, Downtown Boston; 254-3000) arranges for you to meet someone in a public restaurant without revealing your last name or telephone number. It's sorta like the witness relocation program for the criminally single...
Like many Americans in Paris, Mickey Mouse ? in the form of the Euro Disney theme park ? was snubbed by the locals when he first arrived. Opened in 1992, the park got off to a rocky start and was heavily rumored to be closing. But since Disney adapted to their language and customs, the French have taken the Magic Kingdom and its rodent monarch to heart. And on Wednesday Euro Disney announced that it will open a second theme park in 2002 adjacent to Disneyland Paris. "Les Studios Disney" will cost $650 million, and will offer behind-the-scenes looks...
This is what too much money can do to a person. Since selling his business to Netscape in March 1996 for "enough to sustain my lifestyle indefinitely," Jayson Adams, 32, has spent a lot of time thinking. An incredible amount of that thinking has taken place at Menlo Park's Cafe Borrone, a coffee shop four blocks from his apartment. "Since I was 16 or so, my objective was to start a company and sell it or IPO," he says, sipping...