Archive for September 20th, 2002
Last June, the Masai tribe of Kenya donated 14 cows to the people of America. (New York Times; free registration required.) They’d just heard the news about September 11th, and they wanted to give us a token of their sympathy. Earlier this week, a group of people from the Washington area returned the kindness by arranging for a Masai girl to receive a life-saving heart operation.
Boston’s “Big Dig” project, which has so far taken 15 years and cost $14.6 billion, is designed to ease traffic by eventually making the city’s current aboveground central artery a mammoth underground passage. But what’ll they do with the new open space that’s created? (New York Times; free registration required.) Construction is projected to be finished by December, 2004.