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...Father of American Civil Engineering.” “He was a pretty extraordinary fellow,” Edmonds said. The memorial, which consists of a triangle-shaped green, a cannon, and a six-foot tall statue of Baldwin standing atop two rectangular five-ton pedestals, was unveiled on Patriots’ Day in 1918. Edmonds first became aware of the memorial’s predicament when he learned that Middlesex Superior Court planned to temporarily relocate itself to Woburn while its permanent home, the Edward J. Sullivan Courthouse in East Cambridge, undergoes scheduled renovations. Cummings Properties, based...
...overproducing breast milk after giving birth to her daughter Estella last July. She had more milk in her first month of nursing than she would ever need."I used to joke that I had enough breast milk to feed a continent," says Youse, 29. "I had a ton of it and I didn't know what to do." She and her husband Jeremy, a resident at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, knew the nutritional value of breast milk and Youse felt an emotional connection to it as well. She didn't want to dispose of it. So with her freezer...
...selfish. Raising any child is such a large emotional and financial commitment that it has to have a strong component of satisfaction. Would you really like to be raised by someone who did it purely for noble motives, not because raising a child is immensely emotionally gratifying and a ton of fun? The point is that adoption, imperfections and all, is a tremendous emotional benefit to children and parents, as well as to the dedicated professionals who make it possible. As for profit-making by those involved—I wish! Then we could have more adoptive families and fewer...
...protection schemes, or “draw up a front,” as you challenged writers to do, I would likely fail.But I can recognize when these things aren’t working. If there’s a lot of pressure on the quarterback, or a ton of sacks, it’s pretty clear that something isn’t right with the protection, and rest assured that I will ask you about it. You answer should (in theory) tell me whether it was an issue with game planning, or a physical mismatch, or a mistake...
...things happened that opening weekend just before Halloween 2004. The first was that Saw made a ton of money, instantly cueing a sequel. That in itself wasn't news: horror is the most profitable genre around, earning big bucks on a pittance. Each new film can almost be guaranteed a large slice of the teenage-boy market, the last demographic devoted to spending Friday night at the movies. And where there's a market, Hollywood will rush to satisfy and sate...