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Moreover, if potential healthcare costs justify controlling citizens’ actions, there are no limits to government regulation; from sky diving to swimming in pools more than four-feet deep, we regularly engage in risky actions that on average probably raise healthcare costs. Nevertheless, few suggest that the state should prohibit every risky activity...
...Nike cleats, the Swoosh as golden as his game, and then, from the top of the 18-yd. box, fires a soccer ball off the 4-in. crossbar. Before the ball touches the ground, he corrals the rebound on his chest, juggles the ball with his feet and repeats the feat three more times. It's the soccer equivalent of hitting four straight half-court hook shots in basketball or knocking four pitches off the top of the right-field scoreboard in baseball. Just...
Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum’s $30 million development plans for their Weld Hill site in Roslindale are rubbing many of the local residents against the grain. The Arboretum plans to use 15 to 20 thousand square feet to house greenhouses and research laboratory space, 10 to 15 thousand square feet for their administrative buildings, a half-acre for new nursery beds, and space for 25 to 30 cars, according to its website. However, residents of the area are not happy with the proposed plans, citing the “institutional creep” that they have...
...construction worker fell nearly 30 feet from a Harvard construction site on Monday, suffering severe back injuries and prompting an investigation to determine if the University—or its contractors—can be held liable. The worker, whose name was not released, was “semi-conscious” and was rushed to Massachusetts General Hospital after he fell from the construction site on 52 Oxford Street at 12:53 p.m. Monday afternoon, according to Cambridge Fire Department Deputy Chief and Public Information Officer James Burns. “The medics stabilized him and transported...
...spoke to TIME, standing on the sidewalk near the courthouse, the interview was interrupted by screaming. Five feet away, a young American journalist from Knight Ridder had attracted the attention of security forces by taking photographs. Five or six of them jumped on her and began grabbing for her camera, hitting her and reaching down her shirt as she stood pinned against a parked...