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Currently, the Watershed Protection Act includes Boston reservoirs, but omits Cambridge's main water supply at Hobbs Brook and Stony Brook, Barrett said. Since Cambridge would draw on other sources of water in the area in the event of a shortage, Barrett said the measure could also affect several neighboring towns...
Cleveland came back with three off Lamp in the bottom of the inning on Hall's two-run triple and an RBI single by Brook Jacoby. The Indians made it 4-2 in the fifth on Dave Clark's sacrifice fly off Hurst...
...adjust their working hours to meet personal needs. In some 60% of U.S. workplaces, employees are allowed some leeway in when they work. Typically, a flextime employee comes to the office earlier or later than the standard time and then works a full eight-hour day. In Oak Brook, Ill., computer workers at the Official Airline Guides publishing firm can cluster their hours, and work from 7 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. three days a week. Other companies adjust hours on a case-by-case basis. At Stride Rite, comptroller Nancy Cirigliano varied her schedule last December when her father...
...court," says David Sugarman, a professor of psychology at Rhode Island College. Researchers have also discovered that the longer couples stay together, the more probable it is that violence will surface. Observes Daniel O'Leary, a professor of psychology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook: "The likelihood of aggression increases as the intensity of the romance gets stronger. It seems to peak in the year prior to marriage, then gradually decrease across time...
...name means "place of melody" because a brook runs through the center of town, but there is nothing very melodious there. The government began building the township in the late '40s as a sort of dormitory-warehouse for black workers needed in Pretoria. The standard houses are four-bedroom huts, each with an outside water faucet next to the outdoor privy. For years the people shipped to Mamelodi were forbidden to own their homes or make improvements. That was supposed to make them look forward to eventual relocation to remote tribal homelands. Recently, the government has relaxed those restrictions; houses...