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...only one. Fox recently got Time Warner Cable to agree to pay to retransmit Fox's free over-the-air signal, suggesting that broadcasters could someday operate more like cable channels (with cable subscribers paying for it). Reality shows and newsmagazines are, like the Leno show, devices to fill prime time on the cheap - and they'll fill some of the vacuum left by Leno...
Citizens of Cambridge and several neighboring towns will vote in a special election this spring to fill imprisoned ex-senator Anthony D. Galluccio’s vacant seat in the Massachusetts state legislature, Senate President Therese Murray announced Wednesday...
Winters said he thought that the decision to fill the seat by special election rather than leaving it vacant until the fall would benefit Flaherty, who has run for the seat before and garnered name recognition throughout the Middlesex, Suffolk, and Essex district—which includes parts of Cambridge, Boston, Chelsea, Everett, Revere, Saugus, and Somerville. The Boston Globe endorsed Flaherty...
...first memories are of riding a tractor beneath mile after mile of rich, dark green foliage dappled with orange and yellow. For Kyle and his brother, punishment for misbehavior as teens meant picking fruit for an entire day. "I worked all day and hadn't even filled a tub three-fourths full," Kyle recalls, noting that a good picker can fill three or four tubs, which hold 90 lb. each, in an eight-hour day. (See the top 10 green ideas...
...ability to defend itself. But the test does signal a ratcheting up of tensions between Beijing and Washington, and highlights the continuing paradox of a strategic rivalry between two of the globe's biggest trading partners. The U.S. imports about $1 billion a day in Chinese goods to fill the shelves of Walmarts from coast to coast, making it the second-largest U.S. trading partner after Canada. That's a far different relationship than the U.S. had with the Soviet Union, its last strategic challenger. China's test also highlights what some in the military call a "self-licking...