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...Memorial Service will be held for Tom in Memorial Church on Wednesday, November 30 at 11:00 a.m. All are welcome. Contributions in lieu of flowers may be made to: The Jimmy Fund Clinic, Dana Farber Cancer Research Center, 44 Binney Street, Boston, MA 02115 in memory of Thomas George Corwin...
...Jersey, which has the highest traffic density in the U.S., motorists were stunned last summer to learn that state-imposed surcharges had increased their car premiums by some 20%. The sudden increase reflected the state's need to bail out a fund that insures high-risk motorists and has fallen $2 billion in debt. While New Jersey lawmakers toughened the state's no-fault insurance laws, they remain too weak to prevent motorists from bringing costly lawsuits...
...rights movement, which in the past has confined itself to public appeals, lobbying for anticruelty legislation and an occasional raid on research facilities to free the animals inside, has entered a terroristic phase. But activists were quick to disavow the use of violent tactics. Says Julie Lewin of the Fund for Animals: "Violence toward people does not help animals." Some animal-rights proponents contend that Trutt's aborted bomb attack is so damaging to their cause that it may have been instigated by an agent provocateur. Police say they believe the bomb she planted was too sophisticated...
Defending the University's presence on such local committees, O'Neill says that Harvard representatives are often called in for technical assistance on housing and real estate issues. For example, she said city officials invited Spiegelman to serve on the board of the Housing Trust Fund because of her experience and expertise in housing matters...
...industry spent $75 million backing four contradictory and confusing auto-insurance referendums. All were defeated, and a consumer initiative calling for deep cuts in auto, home and $ commercial insurance rates seemed close enough to ensure a recount. But Proposition 19, which proposed a 25 cents tax on cigarettes to fund medical research and education, passed, despite the tobacco industry's $16 million campaign to defeat...