Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After a light-hearted beginning to Monday night's city council meeting featuring a performance by legendary Cambridge entertainer "Little Joe" Cook, councillors moved on to more serious business as they faced attacks on their zoning ordinance by a group of Cambridge businesses and, allegedly, the University...
Students who write will better understand what they read, and students who read will, in turn, write better. Especially in college, where students are supposed to be able to spend their time investigating new or special interests, limits on creative departments can be a serious barrier to education. The College already has one thriving creative concentration--Visual and Environmental Studies--that has proved to be both popular and successful...
...read with horror your article about the terminator gene the Monsanto Corp. is developing to remove the ability of a plant's seeds to reproduce [ENVIRONMENT, Feb. 1]. Your statement that no "serious scientist" thinks dire forecasts of accidental widespread sterilization of natural flora will come to pass brings to mind many other past assertions. Weren't we told that DDT was a safe pesticide and that pouring tons of waste into our waters was a safe form of disposal? The only thing a "serious" scientist should be thinking today is that we really know very little about the long...
...against cursing in front of children is constitutional. A man charged with a foulmouthed fit near two youngsters after falling out of his canoe last summer can, if convicted, face a $100 fine and up to 90 days behind bars. Revolutionary War re-enactors in Massachusetts may also face serious gaol time. A state law banning assault weapons calls for the arrest of owners who don't have trigger guards on their firearm. It doesn't matter whether it is a deadly AK-47 or an old flintlock. How on earth did the National Rifle Association let that...
...uphold his new tactic, as the Supreme Court has done in the case of seizure of assets from drug traffickers. But it is not clear yet whether the judiciary will be willing to balance rights in the same way in the case of drunken driving, which is a less serious offense. And make no mistake, the measures are draconian: "Seizing a vehicle can be a real hardship for a spouse who needs to go to work or a child who needs to go to school," says Cohen. Moreover, the seizure can stick with only a preponderance of the evidence...