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...that the center was docketed for next year's budget. "I will make every effort to include the total funding request in the 1991 fiscal budget," Healy wrote. "However, given the severe fiscal constraints which the state is placing on the city, the total may have to be spread across two years...
Members of the Cambridge Tenants Union say they are also dissatisfied with Rosenberg's write up. Michael H. Turk, co-chair of the union, says his group wanted the city to initiate a program of outreach to specific landlords with low rents, rather than raise rents across the board...
Bishop Endre Gyulay of the Roman Catholic diocese of Szeged in Hungary, which includes Timisoara, told the church news agency Kathpress, based in Vienna, that 30 or 40 people fled across the border yesterday and reported two deaths, of an old woman and a 29-year...
...adds with a laugh, "the errors we are making now." But more important, the restoration marked the beginning of the Italian art establishment's love affair with technology. Nowadays, computers linked up to gamma-ray detectors, infrared cameras and thermographic sensors are turning up in art-restoration projects all across Italy, from the vast ruins of Pompeii to the crowded workshops of Venice. In tasks ranging from simple cataloging to advanced image processing, the new technology not only is making restoration more manageable but also is helping solve some of the oldest mysteries of art history...
Animal-rights groups have steadily gathered force. Last month Trans-Species Unlimited, an animal activist organization, staged its fourth annual Fur-Free Friday in 90 cities across the nation. In New York City some 3,000 protesters, led by perennial TV game-show host Bob Barker, marched down Fifth Avenue carrying signs and taunting fur-coat wearers with shouts of "Shame!" Says Barker, who resigned last year as host of the Miss Universe pageant because contestants wore fur: "We want people wearing fur to be embarrassed when they walk into a restaurant. Fur is obscene, fur is cruel...