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...which requires everyone over the age of twelve to wear a seat belt, passed last month despite a veto by Governor William F. Weld...
...seat belt law] is not an abstract philosophical issue. It's about keeping human beings safe," said State Sen. Michael J. Barrett '70 (D-Cambridge), chair of the health care committee. "[Weld] let his libertarian ideas get in the way of common sense. The seat belt law will save lives and money...
...mandatory seat belt laws was first enacted in 1986. State Rep. Barbara Gray (D-Framingham), citing a study by the Boston University School of Public Health, said that during that year motor vehicle injuries decreased by 18,000 from 1985. But he law was repealed in a referendum a year later...
...number of theories have been floated to explain these irregular, rapid variations. The leading one, advanced by Lamont-Doherty's Wallace Broecker and George Denton of the University of Maine, involves a kind of cyclic ocean current that has been likened to a conveyer belt. Broecker and Denton note that a stream of unusually salty (and thus especially dense) water flows underneath the Gulf Stream as it moves from the tropics to the North Atlantic. When this salty stream reaches the far north, it is forced to the surface as water above it is blown aside by the winds...
...discouraged by the lack of a reliable technique for inserting genes into the nuclei of mammalian cells, he temporarily abandoned gene therapy, turning to other research. As balm for his disappointment, he relentlessly practiced the Korean martial art Tae Kwon Do, won a fourth-degree black belt and was eventually appointed team physician for the U.S. Tae Kwon Do squad at the Seoul Olympics...