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Michael W. Shannon, the first African-American professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, whose work on environmental health and modern dance delighted colleagues and audiences alike, died Tuesday. Shannon was returning from vacation when he collapsed for unknown reasons, according to the Boston Globe. He was 55. The former head of emergency medicine at Harvard-affiliate Children’s Hospital was a leading authority on pediatric toxicology, said Gary R. Fleisher, chair of the Boston hospital’s department of medicine. “He was extremely reliable—you could depend on him for anything...
...wine.Considering that the Square’s eateries are part of an industry that depends almost entirely on disposable income, they have been keeping their heads above water in the economic recession. Owners reported a few dips and changes in business patterns, but overall, they remain optimistic.Business on Tuesday and Wednesday nights—never a restaurant’s money-making time—has been in decline. Some eateries said that diners have been spending less on average while regulars have been dropping in less frequently. But on weekends, restaurants are still packed—and alcohol sales...
...June to help distressed mortgage holders. Then came $350 billion for the banks (and a little of that for the car companies), another $350 billion for the banks, $787 billion in economic stimulus and $410 billion in an earmark-packed spending package for fiscal 2009 that Congress passed on Tuesday. Dizzy? A little nauseous? So are the moderate Democrats in Congress who are usually the gatekeepers of the federal piggy bank - the same fiscal conservatives who helped lead the bipartisan coalition in the Senate that held up and scaled down the Administration's stimulus plan...
...getting the moderates on board is not just about selling the plan to the public - it will also involve a fair amount of arm-twisting and horse-trading. On Tuesday afternoon, according to Politico.com, Obama told a gathering of moderate House Democrats not affiliated with the Blue Dogs, "I am a New Democrat," harking back to the centrist moniker coined by Bill Clinton...
...crackdown began late Tuesday night, with the government invoking Section 144 of the 1860 Penal Code, a law from the British colonial era that forbids public gatherings of four or more people. As whispers of imminent arrests gathered momentum and local television channels exhibited lengthy lists of intended targets, many prominent lawyers and politicians went into hiding, just as they did during a crackdown operated by former President Pervez Musharraf (who was defeated at the polls by the combined parties of Zardari and his now estranged ally Nawaz Sharif). (See pictures from the historic 2008 election that brought down Musharraf...