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BROOKLINE – Harvard University's Grant Study reveals underlying reasons for being healthy and happy in the later years of life, according to Dr. Robert Waldinger, the decades-long research project's current director. What indicators can help predict good health and happiness in a person's later years
Massachusetts
BOSTON — Do your kids think history is boring? They won't when it's re-enacted before their very eyes! Stop by the Old State House, at the intersection of Devonshire and State streets, this Saturday evening, March 5, for a reenactment of the legendary Boston Massacre.
Education
Many New England elementary schools are celebrating Dr. Suess on his birthday Wednesday by reading "The Cat in The Hat" out loud. The beloved author, who was born March 2, 1904, wrote and illustrated some 40 children's books, including "Oh, the Places You'll
SCOTUS
The death of Justice Antonin Scalia last weekend marked the end of an era and left a gaping hole on the United Sates Supreme Court. The Justice, who was well known for his intellect and acerbic wit, served as a role model and mentor to a generation of conservative lawyers.
Massachusetts
BOSTON – The "hookup culture" of casual intimacy on college campuses has been written about ad nauseam – is it good? Bad? Does it hurt women, or empower them? What about men? Is it simply a numbers game, prompted by a rise in the "supply" of women relative
college
The recent near-closure of Sweet Briar, an all-women's college in Virginia, has rekindled the debate over the continuing relevance of single-sex education. Single-sex education has a long history, because for millennia many institutions of higher learning refused to admit women; Plato's Academy in fifth-century Greece was
Massachusetts
BOSTON – When Peggy Hartshorn and her family began taking in pregnant women, she didn't know they were taking the first steps toward joining an international organization. But three years later in 1978, she discovered a network, now known as Heartbeat International, devoted to helping women through maternity. "
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Heidy S. Chuang was walking in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City when a sudden rain shower transformed the dry and dusty streets into a shining, cobbled path, exposing the brilliant colors of the stones. The lovely effect was a sharp contrast to the week before, when