Word: framingham
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...Framingham police and the FBI were investigating the fire bombing of an armed services recruiting office early yesterday. Police said three molotov cocktails were tossed into the building. Damage was not serious, and no one was injured...
Still, most researchers continue to believe that lowering cholesterol levels is the master key to reversing heart disease. Dr. William Castelli, director of the famed Framingham Study, which since 1948 has monitored the coronary health of 5,000 people in the Massachusetts town, offers this prescription for regression: reduce the level of total cholesterol below 150 mg per deciliter of blood and the level of LDL, the bad form of cholesterol that clogs arteries, below 90. In addition, says Castelli, the ratio of total cholesterol to HDL, the good cholesterol that helps clear arteries, should be less than...
...interview last week, Carr cited an anti-CLT speeches to the first year class by the presidents of Mount Wachusett Community College and Framingham State as instances of state university officials using their positions to influence votes. He also referred to a first-year orientation meeting at the University of Lowell in which students were told that the university would lose its accreditation if CLT passed...
...taken it's toll, it's starting to hit hard," says David Varela, student government president at Framingham State College. "Unfortunately people don't realize that there are students who aren't prepared for these increases in tuition, fees and housing--some students...
...modern paradox that children are far more likely to have living grandparents but much less likely to know them well," says Fran Pratt, who directs the Center for Understanding Aging at Framingham State College in Massachusetts. Psychologists point out that old people and youngsters, whether related or not, have much to offer each other. An older person can fill a void for a child who does not have a grandparent living nearby. And companionship with a young child bolsters an elder against the isolation and loneliness that often accompany...