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...order for city agencies to receive over two million dollars in annual funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.Semonoff added that although she would not infer a drop in homelessness from one year’s census data, the appearance of a long-term trend might ultimately be more informative.“We’d need to have a couple years of a trend in a row before making any conclusions,” Semonoff said.“It’s an inexact science,” Berman added...
...said Thaker, who said he went to UHS after the first few days of his sickness. While the Boston Public Health Commission issued a health warning in January claiming an increase in the number of cases of gastroenteritis in the city, Cambridge has not reported a similar trend. Louise Rice, Senior Director of Public Health Services at the Cambridge Public Health Department, said that she had not been informed about an outbreak at Harvard. Meanwhile, students are struggling to accommodate illness in their busy schedules. Thaker, a senior, was struck by the illness a few weeks before his thesis...
...music writers? The difficulty in getting promo copies of albums from piracy-paranoid major labels? The desire to inform our readership about new and artistically interesting music? Whatever the case, we don’t write much on what’s on the radio. To reverse this elitist trend, and to keep with the theme of the issue, below are three belated reviews of albums currently in Billboard’s top 40. -Eric L. Fritz
While CPS officials say the numbers signal a trend, they have not been able to definitively identify the causes of the enrollment drop...
...That left Canada's women to pick up the slack, and did they ever. Although outnumbered by men (110 to 88), the women won twice as many medals (16 to 8). That continues the trend since 2002, when women won nine and the men seven, plus a shared gold in pairs' figure skating. Do the Olympics mean something more to female athletes? "I think the women have something to prove," says Karin Lofstrom, executive director of the Canadian Association of Women and Sport. "This is their time to shine, to be in the limelight, and it's to their credit...