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...Glennon and Ciommo have said that the expansions of Harvard and other local schools will dominate their tenure. “The number one issue facing our community has to be the institutional expansion,” Ciommo said. “They are gobbling up more and more land, encroaching on the residential areas of our neighborhoods.” But despite their campaign statements, the candidates will likely have little power over these expansions if elected. The only entity with the ability to curtail Harvard’s activity is the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA), an independent city...
...means available. The result has been an evolving mix of income supports, price supports, disaster relief, government purchases of surplus crops for school lunches or foreign aid, and "supply controls" that boost crop prices by preventing overproduction. Such controls range from rules requiring farmers to leave some land fallow to acreage allotments directing them as to what and how much to plant. "If you can't feed and clothe yourself, your nation's at risk," says Arkansas Congressman and rice farmer Marion Berry. "Farming is a dadgum hard life, and we need folks to keep doing...
...coincidence that California, land of the experimental health regimen, was home to Judy Mazel's wildly successful 1981 best seller, The Beverly Hills Diet. An aspiring actress with no medical training, Mazel became frustrated in her quest to lose weight and invented her own program, which required eating fruit for 10days and consuming just one type of food, such as carbs or proteins, at a time. Panned by health professionals, Mazel struck a chord with dieters who believed that self-educated people often know better than experts. In the '80s, Mazel, who said she lost...
...group voted to launch a formal study of Shady Hill Square, stalling the construction of a mansion on the land for at least a year...
...attend regularly don’t just come for the extra credit. They come because they love math. They come because they love hearing the teachers on my hallway debate the best way to solve an old AMC problem about the area of Farmer Bob’s land. We teachers are the Helena Aquarium...