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...bright side, those victories were against such powerhouses as Anna Maria, Framingham State, M.I.T., Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and Western New England...
...recent issue of Time had an anecdote about Christopher Duffy of Framingham. Duffy stole a car from a poorly lit parking lot, wrecked it in a high-speed chase with police, then died of his injuries. His estate sued the owners of the parking lot, claiming that they should have done more to prevent auto theft...
...city spent about $30,000 on a broad publicity campaign which included newspaper ads, radio announcements, cable television spots, street banners and even bumper stickers. A new phase of the program began yesterday as city contractors began collecting leaves for the first time to be composted in Framingham...
...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...