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Candidates endorsed by the Civic Association bring their own issues to the table, as well. Councillor Francis H. Duehay '55 said he is pushing for a coordinated city growth policy, sensible implementation of the Clean Air Act, and passage of reservoir protection legislation...
Writer Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs) and director Tony Scott (Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop II) must have figured: If we're gonna get an R, then dammit, let's make an R. For a while, True Romance had the restrictive NC-17 rating, and there's still enough carnage in the R version to make an audience wince out loud. A white drug dealer perforates some black thugs. Palms get sliced, feet corkscrewed, skulls smashed with toilet-tank lids, eyes and other essential organs blown out. The movie climaxes with a dozen or so thugs, druggies, cops -- and that lowest...
Water shortages might have played a role in the collapse as well: University of Cincinnati archaeologist Vernon Scarborough has found evidence of sophisticated reservoir systems in Tikal and other landlocked Maya cities (some of the settlements newly discovered this week also have reservoirs). Since those cities depended on stored rainfall during the four dry months of the year, they would have been extremely vulnerable to a prolonged drought...
...held that the deadly invaders were dormant much of that time. Not so, say two studies in Nature. The intruding virus immediately produces millions of copies that lie waiting in lymph nodes, pea-size organs found throughout the body. Once key parts of the immune system are destroyed, this reservoir of viruses spills over into the blood. Such a massive behind-the-scenes attack may make it impossible to rid the body of the viruses. The researchers note that these findings underscore once again the importance of prevention in fighting the spread of AIDS...
...hundred years ago these were rural areas, but not any more," Duehay says. "Waltham has developed underground sewage and gasoline tanks in the area of the [Hobbs Brook] Reservoir...