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...highest-profile issues while on the council was commuting the life sentences of two members of the Framingham Eight, a group of women who had been found guilty of murdering their abusive husbands...
State representative Jarrett T. Barrios '90 said that about 95 percent of the state's systems are currently Y2K-compliant, and that a third-tier "emergency preparedness" center will be in place in Framingham if contingency plans fail...
...findings show how important it is for researchers to look at the whole population and not just patients in university hospitals, where the worst cases are usually referred. By examining a broad cross section of adults in the long-running Framingham Heart Study, Dr. Lisa Freed and her colleagues found only 2.4% of subjects had mitral-valve prolapse and that half those cases consisted of less harmful variations on normal cardiac design. They also found the condition to be equally uncommon among women...
...worse yet, people who want to become teachers go to less expensive and less academically rigorous college. One promising graduate of my high school declared that she chose to attend Framingham State College due to the low salary she would receive as a teacher when she graduated. The solution is to raise teachers' salaries so that they reflect both the education needed to be a good teachers and the vital importance of educating our children. Higher salaries will encourage more college graduates to become teachers, which will expand the applicant pool, increase competition for teaching positions and allow school districts...
...women also said there is a lack of job training and opportunities for education in facilities like Framingham...