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...muffled voice of some sicko whispering, “Excuse me, Mr. O’Lantern, you have been found guilty of premeditated homicide of a young child and are hereby sentenced to death by incineration.” Before we knew it, we were holding complimentary blow torches and lighting up jackos with more gusto than Donald Sutherland in Backdraft. Meanwhile, youths attempted to set fire to their siblings beneath the 40-foot Pyramid of Pumpkins, a towering inferno of burning jackos that, had it fallen, would have taken out the lion’s share of the families...
...participation in municipal government. They also fielded questions about property taxes in Cambridge’s increasingly tight housing market, government spending on social programs, and the potential closure of community centers. Citing difficulties imposed by existing state law, incumbent candidates pointed to their efforts at easing the blow of property taxes—a main source of city revenue—such as reexamining property assessment methods or working with the state legislature. Councilor Timothy Toomey, Jr. and Mayor Michael A. Sullivan, who is one of the nine council members, each suggested that additional funds from Harvard could help...
Some frequent fliers blow all their air miles on one big, exotic trip. Now they can start saving points toward the biggest trip of them all: a flight to space. Arlington, Virginia-based Space Adventures is now offering suborbital flights?that's just beyond our atmosphere, 100 km above the earth?from 2008 for those who have racked up 20 million points with American Express, or 10 million air miles with U.S. Airways. That's equivalent to 400 times around the globe. Until then, for 275,000 air miles and $8,000, would-be space adventurers can take a flight...
...Guard personnel helped his deputies commandeer boats and rescue thousands. So last week, when two representatives from the U.S. Government Accountability Office came to ask how he would fix the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), he had his answer ready: "I would abolish it," he told them. "I'd blow up FEMA and ask the Coast Guard what it needs...
...thing that will probably cushion the blow of this new and permanent energy crisis is something old, with an air about it of discomfort and duty: conservation. There's nothing particularly sexy or chic about consolidating shopping trips, carpooling, turning the thermostat down in winter and up in summer, or biking to the office and back, but it does work. In the early '80s, in the midst of soaring oil prices, we doubled the average efficiency of cars, furnaces and insulation. Katrina and Rita might not have pushed us into another energy-crisis mind-set yet. With the inevitable price...