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...unidentified man partial to 40 regular jackets stole more than $10,000 worth of merchandise from the Harvard Square men's wear retailer Stonestreets at around 3 a.m. Tuesday, according to police and the store's owner...
...along with getting an escape valve for 50,000 dissatisfied citizens, Fidel is closer than he has ever been to seeing at least a partial end to the U.S. embargo and a formal recognition of what has been the most brutal dictatorship in the history of a country remarkable for its brutal and corrupt dictators. The New York Times has recently reported that a "blueprint" for talks between Cuba and the U.S. are imminent...
After nine days of wrangling over abortion and semantics, the U.N. population conference formally agreed that the key to limiting world population growth rests with the advancement of women. Delegates from nearly 180 countries -- as well as the Vatican, which joined the consensus in a "partial manner" -- endorsed a document that argues for meeting health and education needs as one of the most effective brakes to population growth...
...incremental reform that would achieve universal health coverage for at least one emotionally important constituency: children. Leading the effort is Wofford, who would provide full government funding to insure all children in families below the poverty line (now $14,764 for a family of four) and would offer partial subsidies sufficient to insure children in families that have incomes perhaps four times more than the poverty level. "It probably wouldn't cover that many more people," says an Administration health expert, "but Congress and the President could say, 'Hey, we got a start on universal coverage and did some good...
With the omnibus crime bill that just squeezed through Congress, the Federal Government made its partial gesture toward a solution. Under the new law, it's a crime for juveniles to possess a handgun or for any adult to transfer one to them except in certain supervised situations. It also provides for programs -- like those that keep schools open later -- intended to discourage kids from finding trouble...