Word: bostons
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Kevin M. Cathcart, a Boston attorney and ex-director of the Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders says. "We receive phone calls regularly from people who are exposed to some kind of discrimination at work...
...Unless they live in the city of Boston or Cambridge, both of which have local ordinances, there is no protection against discrimination," Cathcart adds. "If the bill passes and becomes law, then MCAD will have jurisdiction," he says...
...brains of victims characteristically contain plaques that include the beta amyloid, but its presence can only be confirmed after death. Whether it helps cause the brain degeneration or is a by-product is not clear. But if the beta amyloid is the cause, then the Boston research could represent a turning point. The study suggests that the suspect chemical may be produced in one or more tissues outside the brain, circulate in the bloodstream and enter various other tissues. But damage seems to occur only when the beta amyloid is deposited in certain regions of the brain important to memory...
Alzheimer's disease, among the most horrifying to strike the elderly, is also one of the most mysterious. Now scientists have found a small but tantalizing clue to its workings. Dr. Dennis J. Selkoe, co-director of the Center for Neurologic Diseases at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital, led a team of researchers that detected deposits of beta amyloid protein, long associated with Alzheimer's, in the skin, blood vessels and intestines of patients with the disorder. Previously the beta amyloid had been found only in the brains of Alzheimer's victims. The study, reported in last week...
...redemption. The Chicago Cubs are blessed with a beautiful ball park (Wrigley Field) and saddled with a tragic curse: no pennant since 1945. Their old-school manager Don Zimmer carries his own albatross: the memory of squandering an 11 1/2-game lead as skipper of the Boston Red Sox in 1978. But with the Cubs in the lead in the National League East, Zimmer can relax enough to tell his ball club, "If you're not enjoying this, you should get a real job." The mood is infectious, whether it is .300-hitting first baseman Mark Grace describing the pennant race...