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A fan rides a zip line during the NFL Experience for Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis. Kids ROFL and OMG all the livelong day, but ask them to decipher the XLVI of this year's Super Bowl and you might as well be talking Greek. Roman numerals beyond the basics have largely gone the way of cursive and penmanship as a subject in the nation's schools. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

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  • 130524_SN_KYU_PARK_2 New Peabody park dedicated to veterans PEABODY -- This city chose to honor its warriors yesterday by dedicating a place of peace -- a place where children can play and others can sit and walk and enjoy a bit of greenery downtown. With Memorial Day in the offing, the East End Peabody Veter

    May 25, 2013 2 Photos

  • Fishman enters Beverly council race BEVERLY -- The first open race in two decades has drawn three candidates for the Ward 1 City Council seat, including a former congressional candidate. Daniel Fishman, Susan Woods Powell and Brian Williams have taken out nomination papers for Ward 1,

    May 25, 2013

  • Driver charged in fatal crash PEABODY -- A Peabody man has been charged with motor vehicle homicide and drunken driving after a crash on Walnut Street killed his passenger shortly after midnight Thursday. Michael J. Fowler, 38, of 3 Highland Terrace, Apt. 2, was ordered held on $

    May 25, 2013

  • NASA plans to catch asteroid, drag it into lunar orbit LOS ANGELES -- NASA Administrator Charles Bolden dropped by JPL yesterday to outline the agency's plans to capture an asteroid, and to look at a model of a powerful new ion thruster that has enough strength to drag a space rock into orbit around the

    May 25, 2013

  • 130524_SN_KYU_WARING_1 Waring School commencement When: Friday, May 24, at the school in Beverly Number of graduates: 26 Graduation speakers: In addition to members of the faculty, each graduate gave a speech or performed music. Class trip: The class of 2013 traveled to Algiers during their freshman

    May 25, 2013 1 Photo