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...state money from the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security, which amounts to a 25 percent reduction in salary for its 25-hour-a-week employee. While NCCTF can keep the employee until the end of the fiscal year, the part-time position will no longer be funded thereafter. Although the Cambridge Community Learning Center has only seen a small reduction in funding, the center is still under strain because its operational costs have increased due to inflation. The center is looking to cut back on the computer classes it provides due to a reduction in funding...
...Their first meeting, on Dec. 8, 1960, went an hour longer than planned. They talked of Berlin, the Far East, Cuba and various world leaders. Much of the talk was about the structure of decision-making - especially on national security issues. Eisenhower told his friends that Kennedy had little understanding of the presidency. But on other matters, Kennedy had "tremendously impressed him;" he described him as "one of the ablest, brightest minds I've ever come across." And Kennedy told his brother Bobby that he was struck by the sheer force of Eisenhower's personality. He admitted that...
...study suggests that screening all patients for CRP (a $10 test) as well as for cholesterol and blood pressure would not be unwise, or perhaps the test should be used for patients with indeterminate heart-disease risk, who may derive benefit from taking a statin. Longer-term trials are still needed, however, to show whether the benefits of statins outweigh their potential side effects - the drugs are relatively benign, but they are known in rare cases to cause debilitating side effects such as muscle weakness (which forced Bayer to pull its version off the market in 2001). There...
...shock with numbers. It only recently occurred to me that if you don't look at the individual, you make him or her a victim a second time," one teacher in Berlin said after reviewing the archive. Foundation director Nachama agrees. "The commemoration of these events is no longer just about abstract history," he says. "It's about concrete events; the history of your street, the history of your neighborhood...
...victim's arrest and deportation. The plaques are called stolpersteine, or "stumbling blocks," and you see them all over Berlin. Some 17,000 have been placed across Europe. So while many of the survivors of Kristallnacht and the Holocaust that followed may not be alive for much longer, their suffering is not likely to be forgotten...