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...increasing the number of city jobs available for youth. We are going to be in excess of 700 this year,” he said—an increase of over 50 summer jobs from last year, he added. “We’ve also contracted with a group to work with those aged 20 to 30. We have great resources here and we continue to reach...
...time given)—A Cambridge resident reported to CPD that sometime in April 2003, her grandson used her credit cards without her knowledge, charging in excess...
...adds up to big changes in an industry prone to speculative excess. Investors still shouldn't touch these stocks outside a mutual fund or without diversifying across at least five companies. Given the sharp run-up this year, Weisbrod's hedge fund has cut its biotech holdings a third, and six top executives at Genentech recently sold $36 million of the stock. The relatively stodgy feel of the Biogen-IDEC deal has still other growth investors running for the hills. It's all part of growing up--and part of Mullen's plan. --With reporting by Eric Roston/Washington and Unmesh...
...startlingly modern conclusions. The "fire," he said, is a single "fluid," not the dual "vitreous" and "resinous" electricities postulated by European savants. It exists in two states: plus and minus (terms he coined, along with positive and negative, battery and conductor). Furthermore, he said, if there is an excess of charge in one conductor, it must be precisely balanced, as in double-entry bookkeeping, by a deficit in another. Stated another way, electrical charge is always conserved, an important new principle descended from Newton's conservation of momentum. Finally, he said, when sparks fly between two charged bodies, they instantly...
...dire shape, the Palmers couldn't bear to tear it down. Instead, Lorraine renovated the house with period furniture and detailing, right down to the pineapple-print wallpaper. One of the biggest events of the year is the spring Yard Sale Weekend, when the Palmers sell their excess wine at half price and people start lining up in the wee hours of the morning to have first pick...