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The Ultimate Roommate Calculator: How a Math Geek Splits the Rent

By Ben MuessigMar 7th 2011 – 7:34AM
Courtesy Jonathan Bittner

Courtesy Jonathan Bittner

Living with roommates raises plenty of questions. Who left the dishes in the sink? Where's your share of the cable bill? What happened to my leftover pizza? Thankfully, a graduate student at Harvard University has used math to help roommates find an easy answer to the most difficult of domestic questions. Jonathan...

Determined Rescuers Save Dog Stranded on Frozen Pond

By Susanna BairdJan 21st 2011 – 9:20AM
Animal Rescue League of Boston

Animal Rescue League of Boston

After several failed attempts, rescuers donned survival gear and retrieved a lost dog that had been skittering around the frozen surface of a 160-acre reservoir for days. Gibson, a 4-year-old Sheltie mix, had been missing for several days when a slew of callers rang the nonprofit Animal Rescue League of Boston to report a...

Background on Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders.

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