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There may still be a way out, though. The State House of Representatives last week passed a bill that would give the Cambridge City Council the power to override 2 1/2 and levy new taxes, and sent the bill to the Senate. We urge the Senate to adopt the measure, the governor to sign it, and the city council then to use its newfound powers to override the veto...
...Lives cat-food commercials on TV. Not only does Morris exhibit no discernible emotional disorders, he is unflappable. With dubbed TV lines like "Oh, really? Here, kitty, kitty, indeed! Dinner had better be very good," Morris won the 1973 Patsy Award as the best animal actor in TV commercials. Adopted from a humane society, Morris became so famous that his "story" was told in Morris, an Intimate Biography. After he died in 1978, a 14-month search turned up a replacement in a Cape Cod animal shelter. This foundling, like his predecessor, lives on the six-acre kennel of Trainer...
Presenting a variety of potential discoveries, the book Socratically challengers and humorously suggests many facets of such themes as artificial intelligence and consciousness but does not ask the reader to adopt a particular attitude toward the concepts. Each chapter starts with a dialogue, story or essay, which provides an interesting exploration of the mind, followed by an editorial reflection on the implication of the proposal...
...correct the under-representation of Blacks in the elite ranks of our society, in such nearly exclusively white cliques as the Harvard Law Review, we should adopt procedures that will alleviate this condition as quickly as possible. Then we may discard affirmative action and interpret the Constitution as a color-blind document...
...conditioned insulin release. In other words, even if a varied meal and a one-food meal are equal in size and good taste, the varied meal may prove more fattening because it increases appetite. According to Nairn, the best way for humans to lose weight may be to adopt a varied and revolting diet: food that is too sweet one day, too salty the next, or alternately bitter and sour...