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...strip malls. The first, in May, hit a car that had been left without gas on the shoulder. The next, in August, hit a trailer towing a horse. In October and November, the frequency accelerated. Since Oct. 10, three tractor-trailers, seven cars and a nearby school have been struck. Last Monday a woman who lives 150 yds. north of 270 came home to find a bullet in her living room. Police refuse to use the word sniper, but Franklin County feels that menace just the same...
...pass President Bush's Medicare-reform bill. They succeeded, but now even some allies of the bill are upset at the dealmaking that enabled it to happen. The American Hospital Association (A.H.A.), an important supporter of the bill, is furious about a last-minute agreement Speaker Dennis Hastert struck to get California Congressman Dana Rohrabacher's yes vote. Hastert promised a vote next year on a bill Rohrabacher plans to introduce that would require hospitals treating illegal aliens to report them to authorities for deportation. The Medicare legislation reimburses hospitals for the $1.45 billion they spend annually caring for illegal...
Electricity, like clean water, is a resource that's often taken for granted. But last summer, when blackouts struck much of the northeastern U.S., Ontario and Rome, consumers on two continents were given a painful reminder of just how fragile electricity supplies can be. The massive disruptions stranded commuters, defrosted freezers, shut down businesses and refocused attention on where most of the planet's power comes from: oil-and gas-fired generators and nuclear plants. These sources are not only plagued by creaky infrastructures, but they also pollute the environment and, many consumers feel, pose unacceptable health risks. Entrepreneurs like...
Last Thursday evening, representatives from CPD and the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) met with community members at a safety forum, prompted by a Dec. 2 assault with intent to rape near St. Paul’s Church. In that incident, an undergraduate was struck from behind and forced to the ground in the church’s parking lot by an unidentified...
...that case, an undergraduate was taking a commonly-used short-cut through the church parking lot between Arrow and Mount Auburn Streets to her Dunster House room when she was struck from behind with a blunt object and forced to the ground...