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...opposite happened in Framingham. After the state of emergency was lifted this afternoon, the town's board of selectmen voted to maintain a ban on travel and the governor reversed his order...
...this paradox is being explained. Pondering data from a massive study of coronary problems in five different areas-Framingham, Mass., Honolulu, San Francisco, Evans County, Ga., and Albany, N.Y.-Statistician Tavia Gordon of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., noticed an unusual correlation. Virtually all those with heart disease-regardless of age, sex or racial background-also had reduced levels of a substance called high-density lipoprotein (HDL) in their blood. By contrast, those free of atherosclerosis showed remarkably elevated HDL counts...
...left decades ago, soon after the Irish gained control of the city. The G.I. Bill and the rise of suburbia--along with a good deal of blockbusting--brought Boston's Jews, an ethnic group traditionally supportive of public education, outside the city limits to places like Milton. Brookline and Framingham...
...Joseph P. Keefe Technical High School in Framingham, 200 of the school's 1,000 students are handicapped. Of these, 140 students-55 of them deaf-are in regular technical classes. Says Robert Leonard, special needs director: 'Our goal is to make sure kids have sufficient skills to make a living, to go out there and take a crack at it like everyone else...
...hardware is more easily available than the software or readymade programs telling the computer what to do. But addicts nevertheless manage to find plenty of applications for their new toys. Robert Goodyear, 62, a Framingham, Mass., physicist, uses his computer to tap out and edit his personal correspondence. Manhattan Physician Joseph J. Sanger cross-indexes his medical journals to provide him with instant, tailor-made refresher courses on any disease he asks for. Ham Radio Operator Irving Osser of Beverly Hills has programmed his computer to keep a log of the people he talks to on his radio...