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Once a significant part of the American popular culture, the diner has changed, but not disappeared. Gone are the days when you could stroll into the Town Diner in Watertown at three a.m. for a cup of coffee and some fries. Now it only serves the morning crowd and closes down after the lunch-time crowd has left. One regular customer attributed the diner's demise to the closing of local factories and the changing demographics of the neighborhood; with fewer workers and more professionals, the demand for a local center dwindled. During those hours when it is still open...
Psychological benefits have also been documented. Troubled teenagers, for example, are more likely to open up when a therapist brings a dog along. Carol Antoinette Peacock, a psychologist in Watertown, Mass., starts treatment of new adolescent patients with an introduction to her dog Toffy. "It helps them to trust me," says Peacock, who finds that patients sometimes express their feelings through the animal. "They'll say, 'Your dog looks pretty sad,' meaning 'I'm pretty...
State Sen. George Bachrach (D-Watertown) announced last week that he plans to practice law when his term expires in January. The former Congressional candidate, who lost to Kennedy in the September 16 Democratic primary, spoke at a birthday dinner organized to retire his $115,000 campaign debt...
Noah M. Berger '89, who worked on the staff of State Senator George Bachrach's (D-Watertown) Congressional campaign, says, "It's more exciting than almost anything else you can do for a summer...