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...improve the city, he said he seeks to bring the City Council into the 21st century technologically and to work aggressively to retain small businesses in Cambridge...
...precisely because such marked differences in sentiment would have to be overcome that even bailing out Greece (or any other eurozone member) with eurozone money would be more than just the small step toward centralized fiscal policy that it may appear to be. It would also be a very large step toward political union—a goal that the EU must not reach too far for until it attains the approval to do so from the popular ballot on which its authority rests...
Students stood in a small line in Lamont Cafe last night, awaiting the chance to decompress under the helping hands of the Stressbusters—a team of Harvard students offering free five to seven-minute backrubs...
...cent tax per pound of pet food, says Florez, a Democrat who is chairman of the Food and Agriculture Committee. He estimated that after it's launch, the project could cost between $300,000 to $400,000 a year to maintain. Yet even that relatively small amount has some organizations, including a national pet-product trade group and even the Humane Society, raising concerns. Jennifer Fearing, California senior state director and chief economist for the U.S. Humane Society, supports the measure's aims but worries about whether it can get passed. Says Fearing: "I would be shocked if this legislature...
Even if those convicted of animal-abuse felonies were charged a fee, however, that may not be enough to cover the cost of the registry, since only a small percentage of animal-abuse cases result in felony charges, according to Madeline Bernstein, president of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Los Angeles. "The bottom line is that there aren't a lot of felony convictions for animal abuse in the state of California," says Bernstein. The proposal also puts an added burden on local police - operating at a time of state funding cuts - by requiring them...