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...Budget decreases for Work Force have been mirrored by cuts for the Community Computer Center and programs that offer support for affordable housing. The worst may not be over yet: City officials are worried that the current round of budget-slashing will pale in comparison to future cuts undermining basic services like fire and police departments. Cambridge isn’t the only place in Massachusetts to feel the pinch of a statewide budget shortfall. Recently, in response to spiraling state revenues, Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78 was forced to announce more than $1 billion in budget...
City officials expressed concern that although local aid has been protected in the budget thus far, further rounds of cuts would likely dig into local aid, affecting more basic services such as police and fire departments...
...there’s only two places that the money can come from,” said State Representative Alice K. Wolf, whose district includes Harvard and much of the western part of Cambridge. “One is health and human services, the other is local aid and basic school...
...from the Air Force’s Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Research Program for work on the aero-elasticity of flapping wings of micro aero vehicles (MAVs). The Air Force program, which provides around $100,000 each year for a three-year period, hopes to foster creative basic research in science and engineering and enhance early career development, according to Spencer T. Wu, the program’s manager. “We hope to increase opportunities for young investigators to recognize the Air Force’s mission and the related challenges in science and engineering...
...analyzed the first set of national data detailing patient satisfaction with hospital care. The findings, which were published in today’s issue of The New England Journal of Medicine, show that despite general satisfaction with patient care, hospitals across the nation are underperforming in a number of basic areas, including mitigating pain and giving clear discharge instructions...