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...27th is a district where the Democratic primary is the de facto election; even David L.K. Trumbull, chair of Cambridge's Republican committee, called the 27th "probably the worst seat for a Republican in Cambridge...
Looking into the future, Hastings says that it will be far easier to build a cohesive community next year than it was under the old system of de facto randomization...
...Adams was really a gay and lesbian house; a de facto resource center and focus of gay life that will be lost with randomization," says Oppenheimer...
...deep body of water called the spent-fuel pool, where they are placed in racks alongside thousands of other, older rods. Because the Federal Government has never created a storage site for high-level radioactive waste, fuel pools in nuclear plants across the country have become de facto nuclear dumps--with many filled nearly to capacity. The pools weren't designed for this purpose, and risk is involved: the rods must be submerged at all times. A cooling system must dissipate the intense heat they give off. If the system failed, the pool could boil, turning the plant into...
...sometimes seemed he was trying to wrap Microsoft's long arms around it. He launched the Microsoft Network and--over the objections of America Online, CompuServe and the U.S. Justice Department--bundled it with Internet-access software in Windows 95. He dropped his resistance to a number of de facto Internet standards, including Sun Microsystem's Java. Meanwhile, he began securing high-profile content to put on his own network, luring commentator Michael Kinsley from cnn to start an online political magazine and purchasing the Bettmann Archives, one of the world's greatest collections of historical photographs. Last week...