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...this fine Saturday afternoon, no one is safe from Brown's rap: shoppers, teenagers at a bus stop, liquor-store merchants, are all peppered with requests for money, cigarettes and food. "Spare some change?" Brown cries to a man carrying groceries, who lowers his head and scuttles away. "Excuse me!" he shouts to a man in a gray Jaguar, who flashes a frozen smile but keeps his window up and roars away the minute the light turns green. "What's up, pop?" he calls to an elderly couple, who hurriedly push past him. "Just keep asking, keep asking," says Brown...
...Surgeon General wants Americans to minimize the use of salt in cooking and at the table, and to limit alcohol intake to no more than two drinks a day. Pregnant women are cautioned to skip liquor altogether. Other advice: adolescent girls and premenopausal women should increase consumption of calcium-rich foods to guard against osteoporosis, and children and women of childbearing age should be sure to eat foods high in iron to prevent anemia, a condition prevalent in low-income families...
...Moving with a major liquor license is difficult," he said. "The zoning in Cambridge is really strict. You have to make sure you stay in an area where old licenses are still valid. I don't think we'll have any trouble changing locations, but the laws are making it difficult for places of culture and liquor, like jazz bars, to stay open...
Richard Scali, the executive officer of Cambridge's Licensing Commission, said that a 1985 ruling mandated seven "capped areas" in the city in which no new liquor licenses would be granted. The old licenses retain their validity and may be passed down by locations, or if the club moves it can retain its license. But according to the regulation a new bar may not open in a space which was not formerly licensed to sell liquor...
...Complaints from neighbors about noise and traffic congestion prompted the ruling," Scali said. "The new policy is one of capped areas, where the sale of liquor is restricted, like in Central Square, Harvard Square, Inman Square, Porter Square and along Mass...