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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...past, city councillors and Cantabrigians have complained about a city ordinance which allows dogs to run free at Fresh Pond. Although dog waste have been known to spread disease in drinking water, there is no evidence of this occurring at Fresh Pond, Duehay says...

Author: By Sarah E. Scrogin and Robin J. Stamm, S | Title: New Water Facility Planned | 3/17/1993 | See Source »

...anthrax bacteria, which most commonly affects cattle, were found in lymph nodes which drain the lungs. This suggests that victims inhaled the anthrax spores. From there, the bacteria spread through the body...

Author: By Steven G. Dickstein, | Title: Meselson Ventures to Russia | 3/15/1993 | See Source »

...organizations. Everyone and his roommate is a social chair, an associate editor or a "manager" of one stripe or another. Though there is no real harm in the proliferation of titles per se, the proliferation of so many organizations has left virtually every organization understaffed, and talent has been spread thinner than vegemite on a piece of melba toast...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: Freeze Extracurriculars Now | 3/12/1993 | See Source »

...hereby promise to abide by the following terms and conditions to prevent the spread of superfluous extra-curricular activities...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: Freeze Extracurriculars Now | 3/12/1993 | See Source »

Will the perpetrator be carrying a flag? Says former CIA Director Robert Gates: "It's always been a possibility that, as ethnic conflicts spread, the losers might try to exact some sort of price, to attract attention to their cause." But it was by no means certain last week that the Trade Center bombing was an act of political terrorism. During the Gulf War, a bomb found on a chemical storage tank in Virginia instantly raised an alarm. The culprit turned out to be a businessman who hoped to make an insurance-fraud fire look like the work of Iraqis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tower Terror | 3/8/1993 | See Source »

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