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 ‘Sober houses’ under legal review by city
Kenneth J. Cooper
The Roxbury development that has become Safe Haven Sober Houses started quietly enough a decade ago when a one-man real estate company based in Hull bought an undeveloped parcel on the eastern foot of Fort Hill. Full Story
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Howard Manly
As armed robberies go, this one was pretty tame.
On Nov. 9 at around 2:30 p.m., two young black men crossed paths with three other young black men on West Street near Cleary Square in the Hyde Park section of Boston.
A conversation started when one of the teens from the first group asked the teens of the second group for a cigarette. According to statements made later to police, the conversation took a different tact when instead of a cigarette, the questions — demands, really — turned to money, then marijuana. Full story
 West rethinks lopsided agricultural subsidies
Chris Tomlinson
NGIRESI, Tanzania — Farmer Loi Bangoti picks corn by hand on the lush, cool slopes of his land, nestled under the cloudy shadow of Africa’s highest mountains.
Half a world away, farmer Tim Recker drives his combine through the famously flat, open cornfields that stretch out in the sun across the plains of Iowa.
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