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...images, of the explosion, of the aggrieved families, of the memorial services and the schoolchildren and the headlines, will be replayed on television and in our minds for a while yet. And the inquiry, and the experts, and the what-ifs will make us remember. As they should. But through it all, we wonder: why is it that this accident that took seven lives will last in our memories, while the plane crashes and the earthquakes and the mudslides of the last year seem to blur together, faceless thousands of fatalities already forgotten...
Twenty-four-hour security from the Cambridge Police Department and a private agency hired by the business association prevented would-be riders from using the slide until a team of 25 Cambridge schoolchildren could chisel and hammer the structure apart...
...occasion had all the trappings of a lovefest. In the northern French city of Lille last week, schoolchildren waved tiny Union Jacks and Tricolor flags. Scottish bagpipers in kilts and bearskin hats played reels and strathspeys, and French military bands blared out God Save the Queen and the Marseillaise. But nothing embodied the spirit of Franco-British cooperation more than a joint announcement by President Francois Mitterrand and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher that their governments had approved the construction of a 31-mile-long rail tunnel linking the two countries. For nearly two centuries, rulers, entrepreneurs and engineers have dreamed...
...fever. "I think each year that I've been here more people have come through PBH wanting to volunteer," says Valerie A. Barton '86, the association's president. The almost century-old association now has more than 800 people working through 23 committees on such diverse issues as tutoring schoolchildren, giving advice on small claims court, improving the treatment of the mentally ill and helping refugees adjust to life in America...
...school system has quieted down since the controversial firing of Superintendent William C. Lannon two years ago. In fact, the selection of an outstanding administrator to replace Lannon proves that when the School Committee wants to, it can overcome internal squabbles and needless delays to implement changes for local schoolchildren...