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...resident, Wanda Queen, said “she caught five rats in her home in one day,” according to the hearing minutes. Economy Hardware and Home Center on Mass. Ave., which agreed to sell sealed containers for a reduced price of $12 each, has seen a spike in sales during the past week since the city council sent out the coupons, according to store manager Heidi Kiwel. The general manager of Tags Ace Hardware on 29 White St., Peter Albrecht, said that his store decided to participate in the coupon program because it wanted...
...Lynne Wannan couldn't agree more. Since the government drastically cut funding for community-based child-care centers in the '90s, she has watched the sector stagnate. So she's about to launch Spike Children's Services, a not-for-profit company that will help desperate local parents' groups find the means to set up new centers. Community-based services are usually located in council-owned buildings and run with the help of parents' committees; working with local councils that have either land or empty buildings to offer, Spike would broker the loans and offer know...
...TIME: Are you referring to Iranian measures or a spike in oil prices as well...
...simple things like that which have triggered violence.”But Anthony A. Braga, a lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School of Government who is teaching Sociology 179, “Crime, Justice, and the American Legal System” this spring, specifically attributed the spike in violent crime to the “reawakening of the ongoing violence among a small number of gang-involved offenders.”Conflicts between Boston gangs are not being settled quickly and effectively enough, Braga said, due to what he called a lack of support from law enforcement officers...
...Ahmadinejad seems none too worried about U.N. sanctions. As he no doubt sees it, Russia and China are unlikely to go along with such punitive measures, because of their deep economic interests in Iran. The wider international community, he knows, is concerned that a crisis involving Iran could spike oil prices even higher. And he surely calculates a certain advantage to Tehran in relation to Washington right now, created by the foreign policy challenges the Bush Administration faces in Iraq and in the Palestinian territories, where Iran now enjoys influence with key local players...