Word: distinctness
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Ignoring this problem would effectively drive out those citizens who help give Cambridge its distinct and diverse character. The loss of those who primarily benefit from low-cost units--the elderly and disabled, single working mothers, retired long-time residents and other low-income residents--would be a critical blow to Cambridge's vibrant political activism...
...area stretches southwest from the Theater District and westward along the Mass Pike until Copley Square. The "Emerald Necklace" laid out by Frederick Law Olmsted, Class of 1894, borders it on the west. Its southern border is less distinct, eventually melting into northern Roxbury along an ambiguous dividing line...
...time to make the call. No problem. Click on an icon, and your cyberhoney's phone rings in an instant--a few blocks or a few thousand miles away. And it's not just any ring. Everyone in the house has a separate phone line, each with a distinct sound. So when they're all huddled together watching a movie on cable, they know who needs to get up to answer. Of course, no one really has to get up, because they all have a cell phone handy, and it doesn't cost anything extra to take the call that...
...contrast to Harvard's myriad theatrical productions, concerts and coffee-house-readings, there is a distinct paucity of visual art mounted by students for public display. An anomaly in the Harvard art world, the exhibition of student work by Elizabeth Lakshmi Kanter '99 in Eliot Basement reaches a caliber of aesthetic quality sure to inspire an increase in independent student showings. Comprised of work by six student artists, the intense subject matter of "Departures, Losses, Separations", is well suited to the intimate exhibit space of the basement-turned-gallery...
Although a fetus may look different from a human adult, so do newborn infants, toddlers, adolescents and the elderly. Human growth and development occur along a continuum, not in fully distinct and separate stages. Because there is no significant developmental change in the fetus from one day to the next, any point chosen for the termination of its life is necessarily arbitrary. Such scientific facts indicate that a fetus is entitled to the same Constitutional protection afforded to a newborn infant, from whom the fetus is separated in age by less than nine months of development...