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...Which is why Florida's plundering of its affordable-housing reserves looks so ill-advised to many observers. The move could nix some 50 low-income projects slated to be built on the peninsula this year. And it seems particularly unwise when you consider that construction is one of the state's most crucial industries but is suffering the highest unemployment of any sector...
...milk is becoming more mainstream - Nadya Suleman's octuplets have been consuming donated milk - cross-nursing still conjures up the specter of wet-nursing, with all its class issues and antiquated notions about women's bodies yoked in service to others. The official word on cross-nursing is still nix. It seems that no institution, even those that support milk-sharing, is willing to endorse women who offer their milk without a breast pump serving as an intermediary. The Human Milk Banking Association of North America, which screens and distributes donated milk to hospitals across the U.S. and Canada, insists...
...most recently tried to nix term limits in a constitutional plebiscite last year, but in a stunning rebuke, Venezuelans voted down the idea. Few, however, really believed the radical Chávez, whose second and final six-year term ends in February 2013, would let the matter die there. Most assumed he would wait for the outcome of last week's regional elections. He was hoping his United Socialist Party (PSUV) would crush Venezuela's dysfunctional opposition so badly that he'd meet little resistance raising the term-limits question again...
...seems doubtful that Chávez, whose second and final six-year term ends in 2012, emerged with sufficient palanca, or leverage, to again seek a constitutional amendment that would allow him to be re-elected indefinitely, without risking a dangerous national uproar. Critics see his effort to nix term limits as a veiled bid for a Castro-style dictatorship - and even supporters suggest that with oil prices plummeting, battering an economy already hit hard by inflation, Chávez should set other priorities. What's more, now that the U.S. is about to replace Chávez's archenemy...
...college students, and between college students and the greater Boston community. Saturday’s event featured a speech by Boston City Councillor Chuck Turner, a reading of a proclamation by Cambridge Mayor E. Denise Simmons, and 15 tables with community representatives. The event also included entertainment by DJ Nix in the Mix of BET, eight talent acts, a dance competition, a step competition, and a raffle. Justin R. Gerrard ’10, the founder of Mr. Livingston Clothing, said that the event provided him with the opportunity to advertise his new business...