I appreciated something new yesterday while reading the Globe’s Ideas section. “The ideals behind UMass Amherst’s stained concrete:  It looks nothing like the college of your dreams — and that’s exactly why we should learn to love the state’s flagship campus”  made me understand the import behind UMass Amherst’s “colossal concrete slabs, dark subterranean spaces, [...]

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School vacation week.  Why not take the family to the Big Apple? We did. “They” wanted to see the blinking brilliance of Times Square and to determine whether they really could “believe” at the Ripley’s Believe it or Not Museum. I was curious to see another institution, one of America’s most venerable, just blocks from [...]

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