Word: state
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...paleontologist Richard Leakey, the director of Kenya's Wildlife Services, and Richard Garstang of the Endangered Wildlife Trust of Southern Africa--disagreed over the role of ivory trading. While the Kenyan elephant population is dangerously low, Garstang said, elephant overpopulation in South Africa makes that government's policy of state-run population control and ivory trading an appropriate solution...
Massachusetts joined ranks with Wisconsin as it became the second state in the nation to enact gay rights legislation. Ten other state legislatures are considering gay rights legislation, including Connecticut, Vermont, and New Jersey...
During the ceremony, Governor Dukakis said that the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD), the state agency responsible for investigating cases of discrimination, "is ready to begin enforcement...
...signs said many things--about diversity, about individual rights, about politics. And they said many contradictory things, too-- "Catholics for Choice" signs rested alongside pleas for "Not the Church, Not the State, Women Must Control their Fate...
Trish J. Pugliese, senior epidemiologist with the state Commission for Communicable Diseases, said about 70 percent of the 120 cases of measles in Massachusetts since January have occurred in secondary schools and college campuses...