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...addition, both Duehay and Wolf have been strong advocates of responsible development in recent years. They have consistently voted in favor of limiting new construction where it would intrude upon neighborhoods. Key initiatives they have supported include downzoning of the Gulf Station site on Mass Ave. and the Yanow petition to set back all new construction at a 45 degree angle from residential neighborhoods...
Experts on risk perception generally agree that people tend to be less concerned about dangers they incur voluntarily, like cigarette smoking and fast driving. They are more resentful of risks they feel have been imposed upon them, like the threat of mishaps at a nearby nuclear plant. They are more sensitive to risks they can control -- for instance, through laws that ban pesticides or require safety warnings -- than they are to those they feel they can do nothing about -- like acts of nature. "People choose what to fear," says Aaron Wildavsky, co-author of Risk and Culture. "What...
...obese volumes by heavyweight authors on Richard Nixon are upon us this fall, each an installment of a trilogy. Promised for 1990 are two more Nixon books by other serious writers, columnist Tom Wicker and political scientist Herbert Parmet. Despite the wide shelf of literature by and about the 37th President, the urge to discover him anew remains strong. It is not only because Nixon made headlines and history for three decades or that he was the sole President ejected between elections. He also continues to fascinate because it is difficult to come to terms with a leader who debased...
...rally, which will be held at 1 p.m. on Thursday, was decided upon after two hours of debate at an ARAC meeting yesterday afternoon in the Science Center. Group members said they were opposed to the Reserve Officers Training Corps' discrimination toward gays and lesbians...
PROVIDENCE. R.I.--Once upon a time, there was a mediocre Harvard field hockey team...