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...Mass. Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78 announced on Wednesday that the City of Cambridge will lose approximately $2.6 million in local aid for the fiscal year ending June 30—a nearly 10 percent decrease from the $26.7 million in local aid originally allotted. The cut is part of a broader $128 million reduction announced last Friday. Patrick said the cut will be expanded to $375 million next year, pulling another $6.6 million from Cambridge, as part of an effort to close a $1.1 billion shortfall in the state’s budget. The state provides...
...opened in 350 theaters Jan. 23 and did fairly well--the third largest non-Bollywood debut, after Spider-Man 3 and Casino Royale. But India is one of the few nations to prefer local product to Hollywood blockbusters, and so far it has proved a tougher sell to the mass public than to U.S. audiences...
...mother is going to buy her daughter a doll with breasts," Ruth Handler's husband and business partner Elliot insisted. Her other male colleagues at Mattel, the company she founded, concurred. But Handler, a 5-ft. 2-in. (1.6 m) dynamo, was convinced there was a market for a mass-produced adult doll. Little girls aspired to be bigger girls, she reasoned. For years she pressed on, finally introducing the doll at the 1959 Toy Fair in New York City...
Though the book was not selected for the NBCC’s Winter Good Reads List, it tops the organization’s Good Reads Long List for Nonfiction, published early last February on Critical Mass, the blog of the NBCC Board of Directors...
Indeed, women like Evita Dwiandiya, another student at Jakartadoyoga, say they will continue to attend their weekly yoga classes. "This is not a mass movement or anything," says Dwiandiya, who works in Jakarta's private sector. "We'll see if anybody remembers in three months." To be sure, with national elections coming up in April and the recriminations that usually follow, yoga is unlikely to register on the long list of problems facing Indonesia as the nation moves to choosing a new group of leaders for the next five years...