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The city of Cambridge has the same casual indifference to trees. Sure, there are a few scattered parks around. There's even a City Arborist. But for the most part, the landscape is urban and concrete. The largest areas of open space are peripheral to the city, along the Charles...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: The Fall (and Foliage) of Cambridge | 9/29/1993 | See Source »

"Boxes were thrown, scattered, no way he could have gotten my stuff back intact," she continued. "Everything was smashed, dirty--there were things strewn on the floor. Everybody's valuables were gone and there were about seven of us."

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: Storage Mishandled by Two Area Firms | 9/15/1993 | See Source »

How? By FACTS. Any kind, but do get them in. They are what we look for--a name, a place, an allusion, an object, a brand of deodorant, the titles of six poems in a row, even an occasional date. This makes for interesting (if effortless) reading, and this is...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: One Grader's 1962 Reply | 8/17/1993 | See Source »

Who were the Maya, the people who built and later abandoned these majestic pyramids scattered around Central America and who enacted these bizarre rites? The question has piqued scientists across a broad swath of disciplines ever since an American lawyer and explorer named John Lloyd Stephens stumbled across something strange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archaeology: Secrets of the Maya | 8/9/1993 | See Source »

Gun battles have raged in the streets of Mogadishu almost daily since 23 Pakistani peacekeepers died in an ambush last month. Blaming Aidid, the U.S. has led U.N. forces in an aggressive bid to flush him out, culminating in a daylight attack on a meeting of Aidid's top commanders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peacemaking War | 7/26/1993 | See Source »

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