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Vellucci has convinced the city to place a steel sheet around the base of the Freedom Tree II to stave off the vicious vandals. But if Cambridge really wants to protect this blossom of beauty from its pernicious persecutors, it needs to go further...
...environmental concerns, ranking below more immediate problems like waste disposal, pollution and the disappearance of natural areas. With no pressure from below and little inclination to move at the top, the Administration is likely to keep the warming issue on a low boil. Will that be enough to stave off a change in the weather? Keep an eye on the thermometer...
Weld, who needed exactly 14 votes in order to stave off the threat, barely pulled off his victory by winning 14 of the 16 possible Republican senators' votes. All 24 Democratic senators voted against...
Israel asks a great deal of a nation with a 3 percent Jewish constituency. It needs a continued U.S. guarantee of military support to stave off invasion. It needs continued U.S. grants to keep its deteriorating economy afloat. And it has little to offer in return. If Israel expects to sustain a moral claim to altruistic American support, it will have to be perfect. Better than perfect. It will have to be a shining moral example U.S. leaders can show off to the world...
...Anne Willoughby had a dilemma. She is the director of a study begun in 1988 to see if infusions of immunoglobulin (IG) in children infected with the AIDS virus could boost their weak immune systems and help stave off illness. An independent panel that had been monitoring the investigation informed Willoughby early this month that children receiving monthly doses of IG, a protein produced by the body's cells, were faring significantly better than those given a placebo. The youngsters had fewer bacterial infections and fewer hospitalizations. News of the advance in treatment could have enormous consequences...