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...head over to Faneuil Hall to watch the “Howl-O-Ween” Pet Parade. Pets will be costumed in their very best ghoulish get-up, promising a devilish dog and fur-eaky feline festival. 10 a.m.-6 p.m, Saturday, October 31, West End between Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market Building...
...important if only to show people are passionate about the issue,” commented Harvard College Democrats Vice-President and Queer Students and Allies Co-Chair Christian L. Garland ’10-’11. Protesters lingered even after its 2:30 P.M. scheduled end and Obama jetted off by the early evening...
...only way to create health-care reform that will survive and be popular is to write a bill that doesn't stint on funding and promises to control future costs. The best way to do that is to end the $250 billion in subsidies the Federal Government pays to employees who receive corporate health-care benefits - benefits that aren't taxed. The money would be better, and more fairly, spent giving people tax credits to pay for health care, according to their income. This would have the additional benefit of controlling insurance costs, since people are more likely to shop...
...Africa, Durban and Mombasa endured but Goree (Ghana) and Ibo (Mozambique) declined with the end of slavery. Nowhere, though, was harder hit by the end of that terrible trade than Zanzibar. Its former capital, Stone Town, was literally built on slaves: the bones of thousands were encased in the foundations of several buildings in a horrific form of reinforced masonry. But if slavers deserted Zanzibar, the immense houses they built on the backs of their ghastly cargo remain, along with a host of cultural legacies. And that's Stone Town's main draw: the chance to walk through the past...
...laborious DNA testing that geneticist José Lorente and his team will conduct on some of the remains. "If the family doesn't give us tissue samples for us to establish the [family] DNA, those remains will never be identified," Lorente says. It's a fittingly incomplete end for an emblematic figure in a war whose ghosts have yet to be put to rest...