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...We’re open in Boston at the Fort Point station until midnight." That's only 4.3 miles away, says Google Maps. And you thought the Quad...
...Marine Corps is moving 24,000 tons of inventory to the secretive U.S. naval station on the atoll of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, southeast of Somalia. A large container ship will transport 1,628 TEUs - 20-foot shipping containers - in temperature and humidity controlled conditions as part of the long-established Afloat Prepositioning Force, a strategy for storing the tools of war, known as "prepo." The ship will simply sit at anchor in the atoll's blue lagoon and wait, in case there is a major conflict in the area requiring U.S. involvement. This particular project...
...once separatist-minded province failed to materialize although at least five were killed on the opposite end of the country in Papua on election day. Voters in the easternmost province, where separatist sentiment also runs high, went to the polls despite the violence that included attacks on a police station and the burning of a building. "We're seeing the Indonesian voter demonstrating that it is a rational voter, shunning sectarian issues," says Robin Bush, country representative for the Asia Foundation. "This election was a clear statement that they want progress...
...York Binghamton Massacre Before he opened fire on a citizenship class at a Binghamton, N.Y., civic center, Jiverly Wong mailed a rambling, paranoid letter to a Syracuse TV station, bemoaning the loss of his job assembling vacuum cleaners and accusing the police of harassing him. "I am Jiverly Wong shooting the people," it began, and signed off with a chillingly bland "Have a nice day." Wong, a Vietnamese immigrant, killed 13 people before taking his own life in the worst U.S. mass shooting since the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre. Despite a 1992 arrest for fraud, the 41-year...
...Days after that first failed encounter, Browne and his polo teammates returned to Pusey’s office. A Texan oil driller named Hap Sharp had donated six of his trade-out ponies to Harvard and dropped them off at Boston South Station for pick-up. “These belong to you—not to us,” Browne recalls telling Pusey as they handed him a telegram from Sharp. “They belong to Harvard.” In 1968, polo was recognized as an official Harvard club sport...