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Scientists have also learned that far from being a flat, featureless plain, the sea floor is rent and wrinkled with a topography that puts dry land to shame. Not only do the seas hold canyons deep enough to hide the Himalayas, but they are also the setting for what is by far the largest geologic feature on the planet: a single, globe-circling 31,000-mile-long mountain range that snakes its way continuously through the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian and Arctic oceans...
...described himself as "the most progressive candidate in the race," and said he believes rent control will be a key issue in the council race. Rent control, a politically divisive issue in Cambridge for decades, was abolished by state referendum last year...
...this static rent control policy for so long that was keeping us from having to cope with the question," he added. "We'll figure out a way to make it fair. We've got help for the poorest and the elderly, but two people making 45 to 50 [thousand dollars per year] should still be able to rent a decent apartment...
...wouldn't know exactly which programs would be cut, but it is very likely that since the majority of the money goes to affordable housing and human services programs, that the majority of [the cuts] would be in those areas," Duehay said. "It's quite true that with rent control and the other programs that are threatened, more than half of the housing units [in Cambridge] are threatened...
...very time that the broad protection provided for many tenants thorough rent control has been taken away, the cuts at the federal level have jeopardized the tenants in the city who are either in expiring projects or subsidized projects or public housing," Turk said. "The protections that existed for low and moderate income tenants and moderate to middle income tenants are threatened to such a degree so that all those tenants would not be able to stay in Cambridge...