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...recent contribution to the Cambridge Fund for the Homeless came from the WEEI/590 news radio station, which staged a fundraising effort from a broadcasting trailer parked in Harvard Square this weekend...
GARBAGE barges, hypodermic needles, toxic waste and other pollutants washing up on American shores have filled the nation's consciousness with a frightening vision of the earth's future. What can our community can do on a smaller scale to combat these environmental threats? The College's recent support of small-scale student recycling effort is a start...
...years ago that a rawboned young Billy delivered his first sermon one cold night before 36 Baptists in Bostwick, Fla. Since then, he has preached in person to upwards of 100 million people, more than any other clergyman in history except perhaps Pope John Paul. With recent appearances in Buffalo, Rochester and Hamilton, Ont., Graham has achieved a remarkable four- decade run of 375 carefully choreographed revival meetings along a civilized sawdust trail...
After all, how else to explain the fact that an estimated 13% of 17-year- olds and perhaps 40% of minority youth are considered functionally illiterate? . That less than one-third know when the Civil War occurred? That in a recent ABC-TV-sponsored survey of 200 teenagers, less than half could identify Daniel Ortega (President of Nicaragua) and two-thirds were ignorant of Chernobyl (one guessed it was Cher's real name). Five years after A Nation at Risk prompted a flurry of reform, average scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) have risen 11 points. Still, as recently...
Systematic study of police chases has been scant, but three recent reviews of data from a number of states found that between 17% and 45% of such pursuits ended in property damage, 14% to 23% in injury and up to 3% in a fatality. About two-thirds of the injuries and deaths occurred among occupants of the pursued car; the rest were divided between officers and bystanders...