Word: framingham
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...more leaped from 22 in 1974 to 558 in 1989. Those figures may be one reason why Congress is now considering a national tort-reform law aimed at restricting frivolous litigation. There is surely something new in the American air that inspired the estate of Christopher Duffy of Framingham, Mass., who stole a car from a parking lot and got killed in a subsequent accident, to sue the proprietor of the lot for failing to prevent auto thefts. The same ingredient in the Zeitgeist must have affected the Philadelphia jury described by journalist Walter Olson in a new book...
...also unhealthy. Dieters who swing through cycles of weight loss and gain may actually be cutting their lives short, according to a report in last week's New England Journal of Medicine. In a study of 3,130 men and women, ages 30 to 62, participating in the landmark Framingham Heart Study, researchers found that so-called yo-yo dieters ran a 70% higher risk of dying from heart disease than did people whose weight stayed fairly steady, even if they were overweight...
...Harvard Square is kind of like Haight-Ashbury was," said Sarah J. Baron, a student at Framingham State College, referring to the San Francisco street-corner where the hippies gathered. "I hope it doesn...
Hanafin said that Mullin covered some of the Globe's biggest business stories that summer, including the NYNEX telephone strike, the shutdown of the General Motors plant in Framingham and the migration of business ethics professors from the Harvard Business School...
Civil defense officials met in Framingham yesterday to brief state agencies about security and preparations at Logan International Airport. Logan is a staging area for war casualties. Injured flown there would be transferred to area hospitals...