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Mary E. Babic '81, a leader of the group, said yesterday PIRG will try to obtain the signatures of 3250 undergraduates--half the student body--before requesting the University to fund the Harvard chapter's activities through an addition to students' term bills...
...Restaurant at the Orson Welles closed last Friday after the owner failed to obtain a court injunction against striking employees, while lawyers from both management and employees at Steve's Ice Cream in Somerville met for the first time yesterday in the course of the five week strike...
...researchers who first isolated somatostatin needed nearly half a million sheep brains to produce 5 mg. (.00018 oz.) of the substance. Using their recombinant DNA technique, the California researchers required only 2 gal. of bacterial culture to obtain the same amount...
Byrle Breny has helped to obtain and preserve rent control, and wants to see an increase in health and safety services for Cambridge, including an improved police department. She supported fights to preserve proportional representation and the council-manager form of government in Cambridge...
Springer Verlag, which owns twelve other German publications, attacked Wallraff in a sulfurous rebuttal: "He is a man who lies and falsifies stories in order to obtain material for his books." Springer went to court charging 14 specific instances of factual error. It is hardly Wallraff's first encounter with the law. He has been prosecuted twice for impersonating government and corporate employees, but the charges were dismissed. On ten other occasions, Wallraff's victims have won injunctions requiring that unsubstantiated allegations be deleted from his writings. Of the Springer petition for injunction, which may be decided this...