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Duchay says that ensuring environmental protection, accessible health care and affordable housing will be the main issues in the city's immediate future...
Craig A. Kelley says his main goal is to increase alternative transportation sources within the city. The 32 year-old North Cambridge resident makes a 40-mile daily commute via subway, bus and bicycle to Hanscomb Air Force Base...
...from fewer emergency hospitalizations, less malnutrition, a 30% decrease in the use of catheters and a 25% reduction in the use of restraints. Says Sarah Burger of the National Citizens Coalition for Nursing Home Reform: "Operators didn't know until they were forced to stop doing it that the main cause of incontinence and bedsores is being restrained and not being able to get to the bathroom." But wholesale budget slashing will no doubt pressure some facilities to cut corners. Senator William Cohen of Maine, one of the few Republicans to oppose the rollback, warns, "If we weaken federal enforcement...
...scientists and conservationists, the answers are crucial. The Galapagos is not just an exotic vacation spot; it is a unique ecosystem where biology and geology have gone to bizarre and instructive extremes. The archipelago's 15 main and 106 smaller islands are dotted with the volcanoes that gave birth to the Galapagos more than 3 million years ago; some are still active. Opuntia cactus, spiny acacias and palo santo trees have taken root amid the hardened lava of the lowlands. On some of the largest islands, the higher elevations have patches of dense, moist forests dominated by Scalesia trees, which...
...that the main speaker at the Million Man March was not Glenn Loury, the Boston University economist and author (One by One from the Inside Out) who brings more clarity and decency to the subject of race in America than almost anyone else. Is integration mere sentimentality? Is justice not the deeper need, the more attainable? Can there be justice without integration? What kind of justice, and for whom...