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...Martin adds that the squash is delivered through a process called back-hauling, in which trucks pick up the produce on the way back from other deliveries to increase efficiency...
...didn’t want to add yet another truck to Harvard Square,” Martin says. “That’s not a very sustainable way of doing business...
Despite actor Martin Sheen's best efforts imploring voters in television ads to vote against the "Death with Dignity" act in the days leading up the Nov. 4 election, the measure, referred to by opponents as "assisted suicide," was passed with more than 50% of the vote in Washington state on Tuesday. The approval makes Washington the second state in the U.S., after Oregon, to legalize physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients. The law permits individuals who have been given less than six months to live by medical professionals to request - and self-administer - a lethal dose of medicine...
...Republican incumbent Saxby Chambliss had led his Democratic challenger Jim Martin for most of Tuesday night, but saw his lead dwindle in the early hours of Wednesday morning. In Georgia, state election law requires a runoff if neither candidate wins 50% of the vote plus one. By midday Wednesday, Chambliss had 49.9% and Martin had 46.7% according to state election officials. (A third candidate had the remainder of the votes and will not be part of any runoff...
...against the incumbent Max Cleland, he aired ads that accused Cleland, a triple amputee and decorated Vietnam veteran, of not being patriotic enough and soft on Osama Bin Laden. Fast forward six years and the attacks have been just as ugly. One of Chambliss's charges is that Martin raised taxes as he voted to raise his own government expense account. Martin fired back with an ad saying Chambliss had "supported George Bush's economic policies every step...