During a raid last week, authorities seized about 65 pounds of marijuana that is believed to have been shipped from Mexico. Police say they also recovered distribution records to street dealers in New Bedford and surrounding communities.
Twenty-seven-year-old Timothy Almeida, the owner of Almeida Hardwood Flooring, was arrested on trafficking and conspiracy charges. He posted $10,000 [...]
MONTREAL — Quebec has become the bathroom capital of Canada. More potties, tubs, sinks and facets are produced in La Belle Province than anywhere else in the country.Move over Philippe Starck, Duravit and Villeroy Boch and Boffi. With its hot design and low price point, the province’s bathroom manufacturers are taking a bigger bite [...]
In an action that sent stock prices soaring, the central bank offered to let the biggest investment banks on Wall Street borrow up to $200 billion in Treasury securities in exchange for hard-to-sell mortgage-backed securities as collateral. And the Fed made clear that it was prepared to do more as needed.The move, which was [...]
The debut of the new Dodge Ram at the Detroit auto show in January was typically over the top, as cowboys on horseback herded 120 head of cattle through the city to publicize the rugged appeal of the pickup.Chryslers new vice chairman, James E. Press, gamely played his part in a western-style jacket. If [...]
As usual, I had the story wrong. But what kid listens to her parents when they prattle on about the origin of their home furnishings?
“And this porcelain figurine came from your Great Aunt Myrtle, who came over on the boat back when the Earth was cooling.”
“Yada, yada, yada. Can I go to the mall now?”
But [...]
If Maynard G. Krebs were here, he would tell you: Vintage glassware is where it’s at, man.
In a home filled with the broad planes and bold colors of the 1950s and ’60s, glassware accents - candleholders, vases, bowls, drinking glasses and other vessels - keep the aesthetics groovy.
There’s just something about those colorful, Space Age [...]
MONTREAL — Quebec has become the bathroom capital of Canada. More potties, tubs, sinks and facets are produced in La Belle Province than anywhere else in the country.Move over Philippe Starck, Duravit and Villeroy %26amp; Boch and Boffi. With its hot design and low price point, the province’s bathroom manufacturers are taking a bigger bite [...]
TOYOTA CITY, Japan %26#151; At Toyota%26#8217;s training center inside its Motomachi assembly complex here, workers use golf balls to limber up their fingers before they learn new tasks on the factory floor.
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TOYOTA CITY, Japan %26#151; At Toyota%26#8217;s training center inside its Motomachi assembly complex here, workers use golf balls to limber up their fingers before they learn new tasks on the factory floor.
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TOYOTA CITY, Japan %26#151; At Toyota%26#8217;s training center inside its Motomachi assembly complex here, workers use golf balls to limber up their fingers before they learn new tasks on the factory floor.
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