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...Massachusetts Water Resources Authority officially issued a cease and desist order on the pipe renovation until the situation is completely resolved. "We have to make sure that this community is safe," said Boston Transportation Commissioner Thomas J. Tinlin at the meeting. "Nothing further is going to happen until we insist upon certain measures." Although Coleman outlined the ways in which his company would modify the process in order to prevent a situation like this from arising again—using a chemical to reduce the toxic effects of styrene and employing several monitoring techniques—and despite the assurances...
...some language purists insist that there is value to the top-down rules of English. "People who spell a lot of words incorrectly either aren't paying attention or don't care," says Barbara Wallraff, who writes the Wordcourt column on language and writing problems for the Atlantic and King Features Syndicate. "Why are we changing our language to accommodate - with two m's - them...
...high blood pressure, multiple births or any other risky condition. Most midwives--who typically charge from $1,000 to $5,000 per birth, significantly less than the cost of a hospital delivery--travel with basic emergency medical equipment, including oxygen, resuscitation gear and medication to stop hemorrhaging. And all insist they practice preventively and know when--and how--to get a woman to a hospital...
...shown that investment in "nega-watts" - reduced electricity use through efficiency improvements - is much more cost-effective than investment in new megawatts, and the same is clearly true of nega-barrels. It might not fit the worldviews of right-wingers who deny the existence of global warming and insist that reducing emissions would destroy our economy, or of left-wing Earth-firsters who insist that maintaining our creature comforts would destroy the world, but there's a lot of simple things we can do on the demand side before we start rushing to ratchet up supply...
...Democrats insist on blocking oil-drilling when we need the price of oil to drop? Stan Edwards, ROTAN, TEXAS...