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Community protest about potential dangers of DNA technology and ordinances restricting DNA experimentation recently forced G.I. to withdraw its application to set up its own laboratory in Somerville. Boston residents are more likely to accept the company, provided "the industry is carefully monitored." James Crawford, first vice president of the Mission Hill Planning Commission (MHPC), a community group in the neighborhood of BWH, said this week...
Crimson: Why is this administration confident that, unlike in Vietnam, the U.S. will not be slowly drawn, step-by-step, into a situation in EI Salvador where it will either have to withdraw or escalate...
...country found that its railroad beds had deteriorated and its subways were falling apart. The Federal Government called for more efficient public transit and urged private companies to design a better bus (see box). Mass transit was going to be the methadone that would help America withdraw from its addiction to foreign oil. It would unclog crowded highways and improve the quality of air. Besides, it was an economic necessity: people needed a reliable means of getting to work without being exhausted in the process; businesses needed a way to get customers downtown...
...auspicious start is important. Canada is upset over the decision by Reagan earlier this month to withdraw part of a treaty, signed two years ago but held up in the Senate by New England opponents, that would apportion fishing rights in the rich Georges Bank fishery off the East Coast. Canada is also dismayed about the "acid rain" that results from some 6 million tons of sulfur dioxide drifting north from U.S. industries-a problem that could be exacerbated if U.S. pollution laws are relaxed. The Ottawa government has also been pushing for faster U.S. action on plans...
Harvard students borrow Guaranteed loans from home town lenders and the University. The University will continue to lend to its students under some program. Home town lenders, which make virtually all loans at other institutions, will withdraw, probably abruptly, from the program...