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Boston has its molasses; London has its beer. On an autumn afternoon in 1814, in one of the poorest districts of the world's richest city, a wall of porter…
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Turn on a tap in Boston and the water that comes out has traveled sixty-five miles from a reservoir in the hills of central Massachusetts — a vast, island-dotted…
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Imagine a restaurant that worked like this: you walked into a marble-and-chrome hall, changed a dollar into nickels at a booth staffed by a woman who could throw exact…
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Every summer, thousands of visitors climb the 257 steps of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, admire the barber-pole spiral and the Atlantic view, and descend without realizing the strangest fact…
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Walk through Seattle's Pioneer Square neighborhood and look down: set into the sidewalks are grids of small glass squares, glowing faintly purple, worn smooth by a century of shoes.…
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Every American kitchen once contained a box that told the truth about summer: keeping anything cold required somebody, somewhere, to have harvested winter itself — sawed it from a…