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...While en route to a call, officers observed an individual in the street screaming and waving their arms in an aggressive manner near the kiosk at 1400 Mass. Ave. The individual then stood in front of the officer’s vehicle and began to pound on the window and attempted to open the vehicle door. Officers exited the vehicle and the individual continued to yell in a confrontational manner. Christopher M. Meara, 36, was then placed under arrest...

Author: By Kevin C. Leu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Police Log | 3/7/2008 | See Source »

...control is paramount, says Dr. Joseph Buckwalter, an arthritis specialist at the University of Iowa Medical Center. "For someone who is obese, even losing a relatively little amount - 15 to 20 lbs. - can make a huge difference, both in terms of pain and progression of the disease." For every pound of weight lost, you can take 3 to 5 lbs. of force off a bad joint. Lose 10 pounds, and that's 30 to 50 fewer pounds of force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joint Replacements Expected to Soar | 3/6/2008 | See Source »

...through her restaurant stint, McCulla picked up two other night jobs: working for a pastry chef and doing culinary research for the food writer Joan Nathan. For one, she scaled batter and dough, working the 35-pound mixer and experimenting with decorating. For the other, she dove into 14th century French cookbooks looking for the origins of foie gras. (Turns out it may be a descendent of Kosher meat preservation techniques...

Author: By Rebecca A. Cooper, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Smart Food: The CIA Comes to Harvard | 2/22/2008 | See Source »

...companies employing 25,000 workers in 44 states building the F-22 - the prime contractor is aerospace giant Lockheed Martin - and their allies in Congress. That is what is so insidious about these lists: once Congress gets a hold of them, they're used as pile drivers to pound extra billions into the Pentagon budget, generally by lawmakers seeking to fund jobs in their districts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Air Force Reaches for the Sky | 2/22/2008 | See Source »

...employment as the primary objective. To curb price rises, she cut public spending at a time when rising , unemployment and the consequent increase in welfare expenditures would normally push it up. The money supply was throttled and interest rates were allowed to soar, forcing up the value of the pound and making British goods harder to sell on world markets. The strategy cooled inflation by cheapening imports and killing off demand generally, although it also threw a record number of British companies into bankruptcy and millions of workers out of jobs. Since June 1979, when the downturn began, industrial production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thatcher Triumphant | 2/18/2008 | See Source »

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