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Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum’s $30 million development plans for their Weld Hill site in Roslindale are rubbing many of the local residents against the grain. The Arboretum plans to use 15 to 20 thousand square feet to house greenhouses and research laboratory space, 10 to 15 thousand square feet for their administrative buildings, a half-acre for new nursery beds, and space for 25 to 30 cars, according to its website. However, residents of the area are not happy with the proposed plans, citing the “institutional creep” that they have...
...community college event is one of a thousand the federal government is hosting around the country in a final drive to sign people up for the benefit. Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt plans to visit 24 cities this week to plug the program. His department also has added 6,000 phone operators to field last-minute questions from seniors and quadrupled its computer capacity to handle a late surge of applications. Leavitt estimates that of the 43 million eligible for the drug benefit, 38 million are now covered by Medicare or other government programs. He told the Associated...
Granted, the dangers faced by a few thousand Vermonters may not be panic-inducing, but the problems with Vermont Yankee are representative of the dangers of many nuclear power plants. Since 9/11, the Department of Homeland Security has required nuclear plants to gauge their vulnerabilities to a terrorist attack. (NCR ran similar tests in the 1990s but the results were so embarrassingly bad that the tests were discontinued. Safety first.) Vermont Yankee is not alone in failing the mock attacks, but it does have the honor of having “the largest number of weaknesses of any reactor that...
...government routinely confers national honor on directors, actors, and editors of such “clever” creations of art. Until, hopefully soon, globalization corrects the situation, claims of “literary prodigies” of Indian origin will have to be verified and re-verified a thousand times. SAMPATHKUMAR IYANGAR April 29, 2006 Ahmedabad, India
...Ariad’s dispute—is used by more than 200 compounds, including aspirin, according to Science magazine. Perhaps anticipating a future lawsuit, biotech company Amgen last week filed a pre-emptive motion asking a Delaware court to find Ariad’s patent invalid. The Thousand Oaks, Calif.-based firm also sought a ruling that its drug products do not infringe on the patent. Eli Lilly will contest the verdict by asking the judge to overturn the jury’s decision, the Indianapolis-based company announced yesterday. If its request is denied, the firm will appeal...