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...fishing from 27,500 tons to 22,000--a figure that still far outstrips the 15,000-ton limit marine scientists say is needed to prevent the species' extinction. Environmental groups called the meeting a "disaster" and blamed the European Commission for scuttling a proposal that would have imposed stricter regulations...
...with students still demanding a stricter policy to govern their final two years of medical school, the issue shows few signs of being put to rest...
...Massachusetts Public Health Council unanimously approved legislation last week slapping stricter scrutiny on hospitals seeking to build new facilities—a move that is nearly certain to affect future expansion plans by Harvard Medical School’s 15 affiliated teaching hospitals. The measure—which is driven by concerns of rising health care costs and competition placed on local community health centers by Boston’s many prestigious hospitals—forces companies to prove to state officials that their proposed facilities do not duplicate local services. Urban costs and overcrowding have made the suburbs prime...
Researchers categorized cities and towns into three groups: those that had strict smoking laws prior to 2004, those with weaker laws at that time, and those with no smoking restrictions at all. They found that cities that had already had stricter laws, such as Boston and Cambridge, experienced changes in cardiovascular fatalities earlier, corresponding to when their regulations were modified...
...away their money at the tables in Macau - the only place on Chinese soil where gambling is legal. Each day, crowds of hopeful punters cross into Macau from Zhuhai, in mainland China, and pack ferries sailing in from nearby Hong Kong. Over the past few months, Beijing has imposed stricter visa restrictions to cut down on the frequency that mainland Chinese can visit the former Portuguese colony. As a result, gaming revenues dropped by 10% in the third quarter compared to the previous quarter - the second consecutive quarter to post a decline. And as factories in southern China collapse...