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...It’s just a gorgeous building, it’s a landmark building, and it’s one that was built for artisans, artists – all these windows are designed to see through, so you can look across and see people who are making sculpture, making paintings. But in the future, when there’s Allston, we’re hoping that there may be a theater space there, maybe a studio space… We think an arts complex there is really essential, and we’re hoping to have some classes...
...move that reflects the case’s watershed significance, the Supreme Court announced last month that it will release audiotapes of tomorrow’s proceedings to news organizations immediately after oral arguments. The court has only arranged for the prompt release of audiotapes in a handful of landmark cases—beginning with Bush v. Gore in December...
...Study, named after the Massachusetts town where the Federal Government in 1948 started trying to identify the causes of heart disease; in Naples, Fla. Dawber recruited 5,209 healthy men and women to follow in a long-term study that led to key findings, including those in a 1961 landmark paper that isolated such "risk factors" (a term Dawber coined) for heart disease as high blood pressure and high-cholesterol levels. A few years later, he rescued the Framingham study--which the government was considering shutting down--by raising money to continue the research and facilitating the study's partnership...
...move that reflects the case’s watershed significance, the Supreme Court announced last month that it will release audiotapes of tomorrow’s proceedings to news organizations immediately after oral arguments. The court has only arranged for the prompt release of audiotapes in a handful of landmark cases—beginning with Bush v. Gore in December...
...Frank said, “it’s hard to argue that no Hispanic made the high bar.”On the issue of abortion, Frank said he would vote against confirming Bush Court nominee Samuel Alito, because he predicted the nominee would try to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade case. Given Frank’s status as an openly gay politician, it seemed no surprise to the audience when, toward the end of his speech, he said he felt the majority of Americans were not “anti...