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...fate. Says she: "There is that old biological clock ticking away. At 35, it is sort of written in the skies. All the odds go from one digit to two digits. But also there is the embarrassment-of-riches syndrome. Not just financially, but emotionally. You have an overflow of love and money that you just want to share with another person...
Nuclear weapons pose "an acute criminal" threat which can only be stopped by grass-roots activism, Dr. Helen M. Calidoctt, former Clinical Instructor in Pediatrics and president of Physicians for Social Responsibility, told an overflow crowd of 350 people at the Galeria Cinema Friday night...
...said sewage treatment plants have made great improvements in the water quality, but high bacteria counts caused by storm water runoff and general urban pollutants will probably keep the water below federal swimming standards. The MDC has concentrated its cleanup efforts against the major cause of pollution--sewage overflow from Boston's antiquated sewer system, he added...
Aided by a million-dollar grant from the Environmental Protection Agency, the MDC completed in 1972 a $4 million treatment plant in Cambridge, near the Boston University bridge that had chlorinated and screened about a third of the sewage overflow before dumping it into the Charles. He added that a similar plant just downstream from the Boston Museum of Science began operating earlier this year...
However, restriction of stormwater dumping by Boston and Cambridge--a major cause of bacteria growth--has not even been considered, Ferullo said. He added that current treatment plants, which provide only rudimentary waste processing, cannot yet handle all the overflow...