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...nine member delegation from Cambridge's sister city in Armenia arrived in the city this week in an effort to promote long term business relations between Cambridge and Yerevan, the capital of the Soviet republic...
...believes strongly in protecting the investments this state has made--in scholarships for students, protecting the long-term care of the elderly, continuing to deal with the problem of drugs, and continuing the compassionate approach of this administration toward the problem of homelessness," says Deputy Chief of Staff Paul Pezzella of the governor...
Frank yesterday canceled two speeches he was scheduled to deliver this month on the subject of the House ethics committee and ethics reform legislation. The five-term legislator was scheduled to speak to the Senior Executives Association today at the Quality Inn on Capitol Hill and later this month to the American Political Science Association...
...drug, FK-506, is proving to be more powerful and less toxic than cyclosporine. In more than 100 patients taking FK-506 for up to eight months, the rate of organ rejection was only one-sixth as high as in those using cyclosporine. Side effects were minimal, though long-term consequences remain unknown. The Food and Drug Administration calls the preliminary research "very exciting," but approval for general use may be years away...
Still, as last week's quake in San Francisco demonstrated only too well, it does not take a Big One to deal a lethal blow. For this reason, some geologists think that the Big One has been overemphasized as a near-term threat. There are faults up and down the California coast capable of equaling the latest quake, and that is enough reason to worry. Likely candidates for significant quakes in Northern California include not only Berkeley and Oakland but also the Silicon Valley. The Los Angeles Basin, for its part, has experienced an increase in small earthquakes, which many...