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...Bush loses a West Texas congressional race to Kent Hance: Bush was defeated, 53 percent to 47 percent. "We were glad the race was over," Hance said. "He was really improving every...
...blankets around Central Square recently and congregating around city benches for hours at a time. He also recounted reports of illegal behavior, specifically from store owners who have told him there is prostitution in the area. In April, the city announced that the 2008 homelessness census showed a 10 percent increase in the number of people without homes in Cambridge. The upswing in local homelessness coincides with a wider state trend. The Associated Press reports that there are about 1,800 families currently in Massachussetts homeless shelters and that the number of homeless families living in motels in the state...
...said Flyvbjerg. Boston’s Big Dig—a 16-year project that spent an estimated $22 billion on a 3.5 mile highway beneath the city—was one of the nation’s largest and most expensive megaprojects, said Flyvbjerg, resulting in a 224 percent cost overrun. And construction of the Chunnel, a tunnel connecting Britain and France under the English Channel, caused such high cost overruns that the British economy may have been better off without it, he said. Flyvbjerg recommended that planners adjust their estimates based on budgetary overruns from similar projects...
...university-sposnored initiative that pays students to reach out to others about environmental matters—was founded in 2002, the College has seen savings quantified at over $400,000 over the last fiscal year in utility savings, a large part of which of which, like the 33 percent reduction in food waste or the four percent reduction in fuel used for heating, can be attributed to REP activities. From a purely economic perspective, social outreach pays...
...Eating disorders are certainly a serious concern. Anorexia has a fatality rate of five to 20 percent according to the National Eating Disorders Association, which is significantly higher than the suicide risk for depression , and it is particularly likely to occur among women of college age. But we have to treat this illness by educating students about risk factors and symptom detection in their peers, not by attempting to keep nutritional information out of sight...