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Facing Massachusetts voters in November is a ballot initiative seeking to drastically curtail bilingual education in the Commonwealth. Question 2 was proposed by Ron Unz, a California millionaire who has pursued a personal crusade against bilingual education across the country. Unz has already succeeded in persuading voters in Arizona and California to abolish bilingual programs, but he faces more opposition in Massachusetts, which has the oldest bilingual education law in the country...
...Thanks to this year's chemistry Nobel laureates, that's a lot easier than it used to be. In the late 1980s, John Fenn, 85, of Virginia Commonwealth University, and Koichi Tanaka, 43, of Shimadzu Corp. in Kyoto, Japan, independently invented techniques that extended a common analytical tool called mass spectrometry - that is, sorting by mass - to much bigger and more complex molecules than had ever been possible. Among many other things, their work has led to new diagnostic tests for ovarian, breast and prostate cancers and for malaria, and earned the pair half of the approximately $1million prize...
...overtaken in the home straight to take fourth in each. The British runner was, though, successful off the track - winning world half-marathon and cross-country titles for the past two years. This year her track results changed. Radcliffe won gold in 5,000 m at the Commonwealth Games in Manchester last July, and followed that a little over a week later at the European championships in Munich by setting a new European record for 10,000 m: 30.01.09, crossing the finish line some 300 m ahead of her nearest rival. "I always knew I could win," she says...
Although Brandano did raise the constitutional question of whether a judge had the authority to dismiss a case over the objections of the Commonwealth, Agnes said that Tim T. did not answer that question...
Agnes said that judicial dismissals of criminal prosecutions over the objection of the Commonwealth are lawful if they meet three conditions: when required by the interests of justice, following an adversarial proceeding and in circumstances in which the Commonwealth may appeal...