SOMERVILLE—Numbers guru David Bates is back with the priciest condo sales in the city by square foot so far this year. [Twitter]
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HUB-WIDE—Verification, please! "Tim Meagher and his buddy Brendan Hurley were on a mission to beat the record for fastest time riding all of the MBTA's train lines from end-to-end. And after eight hours bouncing between the Red, Orange, Blue, and Green Line trains, they claim that they accomplished just that." [Daily]
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BOSTON—Happy Allston Christmas. "Boston University alone is expecting approximately 3.900 students to arrive on campus come Monday. City of Boston Spokesperson Gabrielle Farrell confirmed that roughly 36,000 students will descend upon local colleges and universities this weekend and move piles upon heaps upon mountains of personal belongings and assorted junk into some 13,000 residential units." [BostInno]
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BOSTON—The city might be a cultural backwater compared with Miami, but Boston has one of the nation's highest qualities of life, according to one measure. [Nerd Wallet]
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