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Representatives of Shelter, Inc. said after last night's permit denial that they would consider either legal action against the board or an appeal to the Cambridge City Council, the policy-making branch of city government that originally drew up Ordinance...
...with their life savings. Janet Pruitt, vice president for electronic banking products at Shawmut Corp. of Boston, cites another drawback: "A PC sitting at your home won't be able to withdraw cash or make deposits." For these transactions, a customer must still trek to the local bank branch or automatic teller machine. Moreover, many home-banking systems are still plagued by shutdowns and glitches. Complaints range from confusing instructions to payments that end up not with creditors but in electronic limbo...
Back in my woods where I am cutting the winter's firewood, the cicada's song fills my head, seems to reverberate inside it. Cicadas, the sun catching their wings and reflecting rainbows, line every tree trunk, every branch. One lights on my shoulder. His broad face with its big red eyes is inches from mine...
...from Lebanon's Shi'ites, who constitute some 40% of the population but have long been relegated to second-class citizenship. In the process of winning an enhanced status, however, the Shi'ites have become a dangerously radicalized and fractious lot. The outcome of the internecine disputes within this branch of Islam could have a profound effect on the larger struggle for political control in Lebanon and on the outcome of the current hostage crisis...
...views expressed in the Journal did not go unchallenged. Dr. Sandra Levy, a former chief of the behavioral medicine branch of the National Cancer Institute, agreed that biology is the major determinant. But she charged that what was measured in the Philadelphia study was "limited and superficial" and that science was not "well served" by the Journal's editorial position. Her own studies of women with breast cancer, Levy said, suggest that cancer patients who are passive, stoic and helpless fare less well than others...