nn “Never close” clothes: L.L. Bean’s flagship store, located on Main Street in Freeport, Maine, is open every day of the year, 24 hours every day.

Alcatraz Island, in San Francisco Bay, was the site of a famous maximum-security federal prison from 1934 to 1963. Why was the prison permanently closed in 1963?

A) Waves were eroding the island

B) Too few inmates were being sent there

C) It was too costly to operate

D) The U.S. Navy wanted to place a base there

Answer on Monday

Friday’s answer: With a density of 5.5 times that of water, the Earth is the densest astronomical body in our solar system. The larger bodies, such as the Sun and Jupiter, are too gaseous to be very dense.

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