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...renowned cardiologist Dr. Paul Dudley White (Class of 1908) is memorialized with, among other things, a three-cent postage stamp, a Presidential Medal of Freedom, and this 17-mile bike trail. The local loop, a mere few blocks away from River Houses, shadows the banks of the Charles through Boston, Cambridge, Newton, and Watertown. River views are the highlight of this trip, presenting a brief escape from tall buildings and cityscapes. Green pastures and benches for relaxing line certain portions. However, riders beware—the path narrows significantly at parts, which means little room for passing and overcrowding...

Author: By Rachel T. Lipson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Boston Trail Mix | 4/1/2010 | See Source »

...became in 2007. Above all, it was a year of unpredictability. In October border waits were up to three and a half hours long. In Canada, there were reports of angry customers throwing books at store clerks, enraged by the stickers printed up months in advance that forced Canadians to pay up to 30% more than Americans for the same goods. On Nov. 7, the day the loonie reached $1.10 U.S., the currency's value swerved and swung over a three-cent range in a single day - a difference that for the Blue Jays, at least, means most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Loonie Takes Off in Canada | 12/20/2007 | See Source »

...produced, for reasons never definitively established, just 24 dimes in 1894, the fabled 1894-S dimes, one of which sold at auction last year for $1.3 million.) At one point I also made a sustained attempt at a stamp collection. I still have my first-day issue of the three-cent stamp commemorating Teddy's Roosevelt's home at Sagamore Hill, which today is worth about what it was then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Criterion Top 10 | 11/10/2006 | See Source »

...student explains, just a Snickers bar and some penny candy. The average sale is, in fact, about $1.50, Higgins says, but that takes into account the 340 sales a day of a single can of soda, the people who come just for a break and buy a single three-cent mint, and, conversely, the ones who are locked into a pattern of four or five dollars worth a night...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Playing On People's Paranoia | 12/2/1981 | See Source »

...appeared as a lone figure on the three-cent national capitol sesquicentennial commemorative stamp, and I then urged my obstetrical friends to use this stamp quite appropriately for their reports and statements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 3, 1960 | 10/3/1960 | See Source »

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