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dan wasserman
This illustration shows an imagined view from the surface of one of the three planets orbiting an ultracool dwarf star just 40 light-years from Earth. (European Southern Observatory/M. Kornmesser)
Near Government Center on a recent Sunday, two young men carefully transported a stuffed, blue sailfish. Their trophy extended the width of the Congress Street sidewalk. Asked, “Where are you taking it?’’ one of them replied, “To my new office.’’
“Where is it from?’’
“My old office . . . well originally Mexico.’’
— DAN WASSERMAN
