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...neighbors’ plan, commonly known as the Carlson petition, would cut the maximum allowed height on the Mahoney’s plot, for example, from 120’ to 24?...
...Maximum number of active-duty troops the U.S. can sustain in Iraq after next March, if the Pentagon sticks to its one-year rotation plan, according to a Congressional Budget Office report...
...European Court of Justice in Luxembourg last week ruled that doctors' rest time in hospitals must be counted as work time, for which European law sets a maximum of 48 hours per week. Frank Ulrich Montgomery, head of the union of hospital doctors, said the ruling means another 15,000 doctors must be found to staff the hospitals. Good news for doctors, but the tab may come to €1 billion. "If the hospital's running costs increase, eventually insurance will have to pay additional costs," Montgomery said. Since most Germans are insured through the state, the government could...
Geoghan was strangled and beaten to death in the protective custody unit of a maximum security prison in Worcester, Mass. last month. His alleged killer was Joseph Druce, an inmate with a history of violent outbursts. The two were in the same cell block despite the facts that Geoghan’s crimes were well known among the inmate population and Druce was serving a life term for the similarly brutal 1988 murder of a man he believed to be homosexual...
...Massachusetts correctional system began to fail Geoghan early on. According to The New York Times, he endured guards’ taunting, contaminated food and excrement placed on his bed in the first prison he was placed. It has also been reported that the guards in the maximum security prison to which Geoghan was moved had been warned that Druce was acting suspiciously outside of Geoghan’s cell, well before the murder took place...