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Joyce, from the suburb of Milton, trails Jacques, and has shifted tactics of late, stepping away from the personality politics that marked his early campaign...
Pacheco, from the small suburb of Taunton, is edging up from a consistent fourth closer to third after receiving endorsements from several important unions, including the Boston Teachers’ Union. He was also scrambling for voter turnout last night...
...news for city slickers and country folk alike: The suburbs are the healthiest place to live in America. According to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, residents of the American suburb rank highest in terms of overall health, access to care and medical treatments. The study, which examined the state of American health care, also concluded that U.S. residents are healthier and living longer than ever before...
...overall retention rate is 70%, a strong number for a community college serving such a low-income population. But there's no numerical formula for measuring how much students learn from the diversity of their peers. Consider Jennifer Strickland, 17, a humanities student from Bainbridge Island, a wealthy, secluded suburb of Seattle. By the spring of her first year, she had become so involved in the college community that she joined a group of students in a march to protest the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man. "Seattle Central has kind of made me realize I had been...
...while living a writer's life of discipline and isolation, one that made him feel out of touch with the wider world. After he graduated from Swarthmore in 1981 with a degree in German, he and his wife Valerie Cornell, also an aspiring novelist, had lived in the Boston suburb of Somerville. For years, their days were devoted to writing, their nights to reading. On weekends he worked at Harvard's geology department, tracking earthquakes. By 1994 his marriage had fallen apart...