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Back at an undisclosed location, our amateur framed up the wall, settled it into place, and even installed a pre-hung door. Then, to block out his noisy suitemates, the blossoming general contractor installed bright pink R-13 fiberglass insulation and sound deadening panels, which he admits even the courteous Home Depot employee dubbed “overkill.” As a finishing touch, he used wood veneer paneling to give the room a flower power, Brady Bunch house feel...
...Boston Fish Pier: take the Red Line to South Station, transfer to the Silver Line (Outbound) to World Trade Center Station. Walk one block towards the NE on Viaduct St. Turn right on Northern Ave. $15 admission charge includes half-dozen oysters, and the first 300 shellfish aficionados get free t-shirts. 21+. Slurp...
...State would begin this fall (Sep. 15, in fact, the day after the Pope's return from Germany). Insiders say the 78-year-old Italian hadn't had an effective working relationship with the German Pope since he became Pope (some believe he may have even tried to block the election of the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in the conclave of April 2005). But more to the point, the Pope has long trusted his own writing touch for major documents and speeches - and no one was going to edit his grand return to the University of Regensburg where...
...ethics, delivery, and pricing of certain health services. The physician and his employer are simply the point-of-sale brokers for drugs and devices and very readily cede their fiduciary responsibility to the marketplace. It is all the more remarkable that several institution-wide reforms have been made to block the promotional juggernaut: namely, the efforts by the University of Pennsylvania, University of Michigan, and several others. It’s too bad the initiative doesn’t come from our government. JAMES H. LAMPMAN ’68 Bismark, N.D. August 16, 2006 The writer is a physician...
...noticed the neighbors across the street weaving colored lights into the trees of their huge yard frontyard, unfurling a Koranic banner from their second-story balcony, and arranging dozens of chairs around their veranda. Within an hour their guests had taken up all the parking spaces in a three block radius, and a speaker attached to an immense sound system began congratulating everyone on the Twelfth Imam's birthday. The voice launched into an excited sermon, detailing how God concealed the Mahdi -- the last in a line of Shi`ite imams descended from the Prophet Mohammad -- and would only bring...