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...Harvard has] clearly decided to mitigate any injury to Watertown’s tax base. I think that that’s wonderful,” says city councillor Anthony D. Galluccio. “I would be very interested to hear Harvard explain why these same principles are not equally important to its home city...
...minimum wage. Hutchinson counters that expanding the earned-income tax credit would be a better way to help the working poor, but he acknowledges that it's a complex argument: "Voters don't want to hear an economics lesson." If he can't find a better way to explain why he's the model for economic change, Hutchinson, the first G.O.P. Senator from Arkansas in more than 100 years, may be the last for some time. --By Matthew Cooper. With reporting by Steve Barnes/Little Rock...
...comatose and in critical condition after an apparent drug overdose. Dabord had been found five days earlier, unconscious and without identification, on a street in Tijuana, Mexico. The hospital called in police, who made the ID and charged him with fraud. Dabord may be the only person who can explain just what happened aboard Dele's boat. "We presume that the bodies of these people must be in the sea--the ocean--and will probably never be found," says prosecutor Michel Marotte in Tahiti. The 55-ft. boat Hakuna Matata embarked in late May from Auckland, New Zealand, bound...
Toward the end of the Eocene epoch 35 million years ago, temperatures plummeted and the Earth's primitive inhabitants endured a cold spell that lasted 100,000 years. The length of that ordeal and what brought it on have long puzzled experts. Various theories to explain it have been put forward--from variations in solar output to changes in the tilt of the Earth's axis--and generally dismissed. Now two scientists, writing in the Journal of Geophysical Research, have proposed a novel idea: the possibility that our planet was once encircled by a huge, Saturn-like ring created...
...There is nothing more difficult than telling the truth about nature to non-scientists,” he said. “Steve’s radical approach was to believe that it was possible to explain the truth to a democratic public...