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This area along the city's industrial belt has one of the worst crime rates in the Boston area. Much of the vacant land at the Simplex site has been used as a dump. In addition, MIT has leased property to the state for drug clinics, halfway houses, mental health rehabilitation centers, and "wet drops" for alcoholics...
...council also gave preliminary approval to a bill that would require Health Department inspection of vacant apartment units before they could be leased to new tenants...
...days later, Harvard announced it would go to court to demand a new assessment of a vacant lot the city claimed for a playground. The city offered $480,000 in return for the land; Harvard thinks it may be worth $750,000 or more...
City leaders reacted angrily yesterday to Harvard's announcement that it will ask a county court to determine if Cambridge paid enough money for a one-acre vacant lot off Sacramento St. which it took by eminent domain last month...
...temperament. Remington (played with granitic force by Michael Kevin) begins on an elegiac note. He recalls sitting beside a wintry campfire and hearing a gnarled veteran of the receding frontier say: "In a few years, the railroad will come all along the Yellowstone ... the wild riders and the vacant lands are about to vanish forever " But for a boy of 19, there were plenty of adventures left. In a yeasty anecdotal vein, Remington tells tales of canoeing shallow rivers and being spilled into the foaming rapids...