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...week more than 250 residents of Amoy Gardens contracted the potentially deadly virus?nearly half of them are from Block E. On April 1, health officials gave Block E occupants a couple hours' notice before busing them to their new countryside digs. Now, they have traded their possibly virus-ridden apartments for temporary housing that might also be as conducive to spreading the killer virus. Sammy Mak, a 31-year-old clerk, spent her first morning in the holiday village disinfecting her cabin's toilet with bleach. She was told that relatives of afflicted residents would be separated from...
...debt-ridden Turnpike Authority announced the parcel’s auction in January after years of back-and-forth discussions on the potential for the land, which is split down the middle by turnpike roads and crisscrossed by CSX railway tracks. In 1997, the Turnpike sold a less-encumbered 47-acre piece of adjacent property to the University for $151 million...
...past couple of decades as a “mass psychosis” affecting students and parents alike. His playful tone tries to mock the gravity of an admissions process that Mathews thinks has spun out of control, leading to a country full of pushy parents and ulcer-ridden 9th graders trying to stay ahead of the curve through resume polishing and relentless test preparation...
...abandoned him as a child); his stepgrandmother, who raised him when he was not in foster care; a sister, the film's most sympathetic figure; and a girlfriend with a serious speech impediment who is standing by her man. James becomes a figure in his own film, guilt ridden about his earlier abandonment of Stevie but still the only person present capable of offering him sensible, always unheeded, counsel as Stevie's case wends toward sentencing...
...balance a deficit-ridden budget in the midst of an economic downturn without raising taxes or decimating state services? You can’t, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts will soon pay the price for trying...