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...Cambridge City Council last night voted to send two proposals for zoning the last large tract of undeveloped land in the city to the Cambridge Planning Board after a long debate that split the council along its factional lines...
...fresh guidelines for the Powder River Basin auction, the committee report said, experts in the regional office of Interior's Minerals Management Service (MMS) in Casper, Wyo., spent 4,000 man-hours trying to determine the fair market "value" for each tract. But, feeling that the figures were not reliable, department officials in Washington rejected them. Barely one month before the sale, Interior came up with its own "entry level" bids, some of which were as much as half the MMS recommendation. The new prices, said an MMS official who worked on the original set of figures, "were...
Driefontein's resistance to the draconian program had an unlikely leader in Saul Mkhize, 48, a quiet, slender accountant. He owned the land that his grandfather had settled in 1912, when 300 black families pooled their resources to purchase a 6,000-acre tract. But in 1981 the government announced that it needed all the land in Driefontein to build a dam. To show that they were serious, officials arrived to paint numbers on the heart-shaped gravestones in the Driefontein cemetery in preparation for moving the remains. Mkhize and his neighbors protested vigorously, insisting that they owned...
...crocks," as "psychoceramic medicine" and the recitation of their histories as "organ recitals." Other somatizers sometimes deliberately fake illness, going so far, for example, as to rub a thermometer on a bedsheet to produce a fever, lacerate the skin to create lesions, or overuse laxatives to disrupt the gastrointestinal tract. In the bizarre Munchausen syndrome, which, according to one estimate, affects 4,000 U.S. patients, ailments are feigned so that the individual can enter the hospital. One man was so skillful at complaining about his abdominal pain, vomiting and seizures that he was hospitalized more than 400 times and submitted...
...most of the councillors contacted yesterday did not oppose the mayor's action. After two consecutive marathon sessions trying to hammer out zoning changes for the last large tract of undeveloped land in Cambridge, they said they were looking forward to the unusually restful Monday night...