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...needed pancakes at 4:30 a.m. simply does not make sense. And no one is proposing a line of bars and restaurants on Garden St., on top of existing houses. Rather, it should be easier for establishments on main thoroughfares, such as Mt. Auburn St. and Mass. Ave, and side streets far from any residential areas, such as Eliot St., to serve liquor and stay open late. The councillors also rightfully highlighted the ill effects of the Licensing Commission’s stinginess in doling out liquor licenses. Currently, a liquor license in Harvard Square costs...
...years as administrator of the federal Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, says news of SUV tire failures left him besieged with demands for tire pressure warning systems even though government reports listed 41 car-crash deaths per year due to under-inflated tires, versus 9,800 deaths from side-impact crashes. "People's capacity to visualize a risk is an important part of the attention they give to it," says Graham. "If you're within six months of a Three Mile Island, a Love Canal, or a 9/11, the policymakers and the public don't have the patience...
...Daniel Kahneman coined "the availability heuristic": the concept that if people can think of an incident in which a risk has come to fruition, they will exaggerate its likelihood. "Somehow the probability of an accident increases [in one's mind] after you see a car turned over on the side of the road," says Kahneman, who won a 2002 Nobel prize for his work. "That's what availability does to you: it plants an image that comes readily to mind, and that image is associated with an emotion: fear...
...other side of the country, Zambrano is worried. He’s received his SAT scores from October; he scored a 1990. He had hoped to break...
...speech about faith and violence that sparked anger throughout the Muslim world. But the papacy often requires old men to learn new tricks. And so on Tuesday, as he set off on the most delicate mission of his life, the 79-year-old Pontiff was showing a very different side, one that reflects a growing awareness of his new role...