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The city has used inventory, testing, vendor-certification and other techniques to make sure that its "mission-critical" computer applications and computer-driven equipment--which play integral roles in the police, fire and management information systems departments, among others--are Y2K-compliant, according to the city's Web site.
For example, Cambridge currently receives its water from Waltham's Quabbin Reservoir through the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA). Most of the MWRA's control systems are mechanical, according to Timothy W.D. MacDonald, the city's manager of water operations.
The number of people between the age of 15 and 24 who have contracted bacterial meningitis has doubled in the last decade, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Only 3,000 Americans come down with meningitis every year; but students living on college campuses are three...
"By the time people are seniors, their risk behavior has gone down some," Lardner said.
Rosenthal said people tend to overreact when there are a few well-publicized reports of meningitis cases.