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Leap Away

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Tomorrow is Leap Day, which occurs every four years.

Or does it? …

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Tick Tock

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At first, Hamdenite Lisa Maloney thought she had tendonitis in her wrists. But when the pain spread to her right knee and then her ankle, she realized something was terribly wrong. …

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Vital Organ

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Picture a penny whistle, the size of a drinking straw and made out of tin. Blow on it and you’ll get a bright, high pitch. Now imagine a wooden whistle 33 feet tall. …

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Common Cold

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They say the one constant is change, but something that hasn’t changed in a long while is our annual preoccupation with the common cold. …

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A Delightful Ramble

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“From the Sound to the Summits” is the tag line for the New England Trail

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Gone Bust

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It’s easy to miss the empty pedestal near the summit of East Rock. …

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War Zone

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New Haven has been many cities in its nearly 400 years. Picture this one…

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Hanging Out

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Even if you’ve hiked Meriden’s Hanging Hills before, when you clamber over the last rocky shelf and arrive on West Peak, chances are you’ll be awed all over again. …

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Good Show

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Think the symphony isn’t for you? Rethink that. …

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Wish Fulfillment

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I’m not entirely proud to admit it, but one of the most enjoyable aspects of seeing Sanaz Toossi’s Wish You Were Here at Yale Rep was the discomfort I sensed in some of the men in the theater. Women have …

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