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...driving force behind this fresh approach to urban government is a handful of "new pragmatist" mayors--Indianapolis' Goldsmith, Cleveland's Michael White, Philadelphia's Edward Rendell, Milwaukee's John Norquist, Chicago's Richard M. Daley and to some extent Los Angeles' Robert Riordan and New York City's Rudolph Giuliani--who actively collaborate and compare notes on how to make cities work. Goldsmith visits Giuliani every few months to talk shop; Rendell and Goldsmith bounce ideas off each other at frequent joint speaking appearances. And good practices, big or small, travel fast. "You learn a lot from each other," says...
...their forecasts improve, will surely couch them in caveats. As TV viewers know from nightly weather forecasts, an 80% chance of rain doesn't necessarily mean that they'll be unfurling their umbrellas. At an El Nino symposium held at headquarters in Boulder, Colo., University of Washington atmospheric physicist Edward Sarachik suggested that people most affected by the ENSO cycle--not just farmers and fishermen but also commodities traders, water-resource managers and insurance underwriters--should look at a prediction the way a savvy gambler might look at a set of dice that turns up snake eyes more frequently than...
Some acupuncturists use magnets to stimulate pressure points and promote circulation. But as Dr. Edward McFarland, head of sports medicine at Johns Hopkins University, puts it, "The science [of biomagnetics] has to catch up to the hype." Indeed, there have been no authoritative studies on the effects of magnetic therapy. There is no shortage, though, of theories about how they work...
...memorial garnered support from significant figures including Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56, Governor William F. Weld '66 and Russell. Russell held a rally in her office before the first Historical Commission hearing in October 1996 and marched into the hearing with members of the Memorial Committee waving Irish flags...
...history that we would like to heal," said Joseph Lewis, FBI special agent in charge in Birmingham. "We feel we have an opportunity to do so this time and we want to take one last shot at it." Since the 1963 attack, only one person, Ku Klux Klansman Robert Edward Chambliss, has been convicted. The FBI believes at least three other men were involved in the blast, which took the lives of an 11-year-old girl and three 14-year-old girls...