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...Witch Crossing” shot glasses. Across the street, you can buy witch figurines and candleholders at the local souvenir shop. In Essex Square, the town’s main drag, there is the usual array of fried dough and roasted nut stands common to county fairs everywhere. Salem is much like any other tourist trap, except when you remember what happened here. 25 dead. 200 imprisoned. The trials the Massachusetts State Legislature referred to as “those dark and severe Prosecutions,” when it officially pardoned the witches...
Some in Massachusetts are reaching farther back in the annals of regional history for guidance—all the way back to 1692 and the Salem witch trial...
...that struggle can cut both ways. Dyslexics are also overrepresented in the prison population. According to Frank Wood, a professor of neurology at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., new research shows that children with dyslexia are more likely than nondyslexics to drop out of school, withdraw from friends and family or attempt suicide...
...time also double their risk of developing Alzheimer's and other cognitive problems. The news, published in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association, comes as a surprise, says principal investigator Sally Shumaker, a public-health expert at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C. Earlier studies had suggested that female hormones might be good for the brain...
...badges with cameo silhouettes of the Great Helmsman. And when the new and improved Peabody Essex Museum reopens in June, it will feature on its grounds an early 19th century Chinese merchant's house, which the museum has moved in its entirety from the Huizhou region near Shanghai to Salem, Mass...