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...with safety on Memorial Drive. And it’ll only get worse, according to Lawrence Adkins, president of the Riverside Neighborhood Association. The parkway’s lack of crosswalks will grow increasingly dangerous as the “culture” of the road evolves with the advent of hotels, businesses, and more pedestrians, he said. “The foresight should have been there,” Adkins added. The community has, in fact, recently taken steps to shore up safety on the road. The Cambridgeport Neighborhood Initiative successfully urged authorities to place a light and crosswalk...
...advent of terrorism carried out in Islam's name - in Madrid, London and elsewhere - has deepened the rancor in the debate. Days after the most recent plot to blow up airliners over the Atlantic was uncovered by British intelligence, Muslim leaders used the renewed focus on their communities to call for further measures to make them feel at home. An open letter to the Prime Minister signed by 38 Muslim groups in Britain and six politicians even demanded that the government "change our foreign policy to show the world that we value the lives of civilians wherever they live...
...Little Women and my thoroughly modern daughters have reminded me of how miraculous the antibiotic era has been. The advent of penicillin was hailed as miraculous and indeed it was. Mickey Mantle would have had his leg and future baseball career amputated if not for penicillin. Thousands of wounded soldiers would not have returned home from World War II. But the battlefields around us have changed. We have quietly entered a new era of antibiotic resistance, and the rules of germ warfare are changing as fast as military tactics. The next generation of patients, scientists, and drug therapy must...
...majority of Basques once viewed ETA's objectives with some sympathy - their struggle was portrayed as a rebel region's fight against Franco's dictatorship. But since the advent of democracy in 1978, ETA's support has steadily dwindled to the point where today it is almost unanimously rejected by Basque society. Indeed, despite Basques' desire for self-rule- some still seek independence from Spain- tolerance for political violence has disappeared. It was the desire to heal the traumas of 40 years of low-intensity civil conflict that saw the brief 1998 cease-fire called by ETA greeted with...
That not to say it's easy to love. If you judge Bombay by governance, it sounds as though the city is falling apart. In a calamity last July that was mercifully forgotten with the advent of Hurricane Katrina weeks later, heavy monsoon rains flooded Bombay for a week as the city's 150-year-old drains and sewers collapsed. At least 435 people died. The infrastructure bears other scars of neglect. In the city's small and ancient stock of trains, each is crammed with an average of 4,500 people, although most have a capacity...