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...political system, and a disdain for government's motives and decision-making abilities. The attempts of some Republicans and Democrats to respond by championing campaign finance reform and bureaucracy reduction have been ineffective. If the problem is the system itself, a third party gains legitimacy as a solvent for concentrated two-party bickering...
That bit of legal deconstruction may undermine the concept of justice, but it proved prophetic in the Woburn case. It was not difficult to establish that the carcinogenic solvent trichloroethylene had contaminated soil at the defendants' plants. But had the TCE discovered in the town drinking water come from those sources? If so, could it have caused the blood cancers and other disorders...
According to Hahnemann, the vigorous shaking transferred the "spiritlike" essence of the medicine to the solvent. And each successive shaking "potentized" the solution even further. Hahnemann believed that the extremely dilute solution, when taken by a patient, would jump-start the body's dormant "vital force" to combat illness. Hahnemann's Law of Infinitesimals--his belief that the more a remedy is diluted, the stronger its effect--is homeopathy's second major tenet...
Investigators believe the blast involved the chemicals xylene, used as a protective coating, and cyclohexane, a solvent...
...Figuring out how to run this range of programs while keeping the city solvent is the essence of the city manager's job. And it is a job which even a newcomer like me knows that Bob Healy has done well," Rowe wrote. Rowe, who was appointed in the spring, could not be reached for comment last night...