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...that time, McDonald's and its franchises have remodeled 11,000 stores (there are now 31,000 locations around the globe). At a spruced-up restaurant in the Bronx one weekday evening, Brian Waters, a mailman, sat with his 9-year-old son in a booth. The bright dining area featured abstract paintings of New York City's bridges and the Statue of Liberty. "It used to be dark and drab in here," Waters says. "Now it's nice and clean. I don't mind sitting here anymore." Stores have also extended hours: 34% of the company...
...caretaker of Hamilton Island, the agency's website crashed after receiving more than 1 million hits in three days. The job, which pays $100,000 for a six-month stint, involves just 12 hours of "work" each month. Duties include swimming, fishing, snorkeling, producing a blog extolling the area's beauty and fetching mail...
...study outlines the primary ways in which the institution contributes to the regional area and state: employment, local spending, research, and community outreach. The report is aimed at shining a light on how Harvard benefits the community beyond the perennially- controversial Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILOT), which is about $5.6 million to Cambridge, Boston, and Watertown...
...Ninety percent of the University’s $3.5 billion in annual revenue came from outside the Boston area, but more than 70 percent of its $2.6 billion in spending went into the local five-county region...
Police departments might need to make unprecedented changes in order to ensure the integrity of police protection. This may mean reducing the number of armed cops on the street, or reevaluating exactly which cops truly need guns to facilitate their duties. For example, in the Bay Area, transit police are employed to preserve the safety of transit riders. In the majority of cases, a gun might not be needed to fulfill this objective, as shown by this recent incident, guns may counter that purpose. Departments could, alternatively, become more stringent about the police’s freedom to use lethal...