As a criminologist, I was drawn to the interactive map of this year’s Boston homicides that was featured in boston.com earlier this month. The concentration of murders in the city’€™s poorest neighborhoods of Roxbury, Dorchester and Mattapan is obvious yet hardly surprising. These areas of the city have long been “hot spots” for violence.

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Panicked investors are taking money out of the stock market and putting it into another recently distressed investment — real estate.

Many were surprised to learn that an earthquake that occurred in Virginia could be felt as far north as Toronto and as far south as North Carolina.

Builders of a problem-plagued Big Dig tunnel may have underestimated the sensitive nature of deep underground marine clay -€” considered as fragile as a house of cards -€” when undertaking one of the world’s largest “ground freezing”€ projects, according to an engineering expert.

In order to live, 14-year-old Jenny Asay has to poke herself with a needle more than a dozen times a day.

It was the final day of the 2004 presidential campaign and John Kerry, trying to show his hard-traveling press corps some love, was handing out Team Kerry fleece jackets as mementoes. The sentimentality of the moment faltered slightly when he got to me, handed me a jacket and told me €”in a really nice, solicitous […]

A package bomb that injured two professors at a university here this month is the latest in a string of attacks by a new terror group inspired by the Unabomber. Its violent actions have put campuses across Mexico on alert and caused nanotechnology researchers worldwide to take precautions with their mail.

All colleges want their alumni to have jobs, but some schools provide more support for this than others.

As our nation pauses to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with the dedication of a new memorial on the anniversary of the historic 1963 March on Washington, most will focus on only part of the story. When many Americans think of the historic March, they think of Dr. King standing on the steps of […]

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