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Amid concerns about the rising cost of fuel, the Cambridge City Council approved appropriations to help low-income families in Cambridge pay for heating oil and to supplement benefits for families that had exhausted their heating benefits at its regular meeting last night. The meeting also marked the first steps toward renaming Plympton Street in honor of deceased Pulitzer Prize winner and Crimson alumnus David L. Halberstam ’55. The proposal, which will require the Council’s Government Operations and Rules Committee to hold a public hearing about the potential name change, was unanimously approved...
...sweep of other East Asian and Pacific countries. As the talks have made more headway, Hill has gotten greater latitude from the Administration. With some balking, the North has shut down its nuclear reactor at Yongbyon. Recent talks have dangled carrots before Pyongyang like promising deliveries of heavy fuel oil in exchange for further denuclearization. The New York Philharmonic's visit to North Korea in February is not a direct result of Hill's work, but the event would surely have been less likely without the improved atmospherics he's helped bring about. And a world that's making music...
...Needed: Fuel for Humans Having read "A Furious Hunger," I sadly experienced déjà vu [March 17]. As a food technologist, I daily receive disquieting information on availability and rising prices. Several companies I deal with are becoming desperate as stocks of flax and corn, to name but two examples, are virtually extinct. You were certainly correct to cite biofuels and bad harvests as the key reasons for this scarcity. Several of our suppliers readily admit they have sold their stocks of sugar, corn and rapeseed to biofuel manufacturers simply because they can make a lot more money...
...Many Democrats still worry that the Treasury plan could prove a preemptive anti-regulatory trap - hardly the first time Bush has pulled off such a gambit. On fuel efficiency standards, Bush and the auto industry insisted on holding out against tough new restrictions until it became clear that the House and Senate could produce a veto-proof majority. At that point, Bush and the industry backed lesser standards, which eventually became law. More recently, Bush intervened in mid-March to soften new anti-ozone regulations after the EPA had concluded that tough new standards were necessary...
...Maupin was a 20-year-old private first class when he was captured on April 9, 2004, after his fuel convoy was attacked west of Baghdad. "It really hurts," his mother said. "You go through four years of hope...