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Michael Capuano, former mayor of Somerville, won the Eighth District Democratic primary and went on to trounce his Republican opponent in the general election...
George Bachrach, Democratic candidate for the Eighth Congressional District, was confident on election night last September. The candidate who had coined himself an "unrepentant, unabashed and unreconstructed liberal" thought he was going to pull out a close victory...
...course. Customers do not buy a particular plane so much as the right to fly on a jet of the class they have purchased. NetJets owners can purchase a fraction of a plane up to the whole thing and get a proportional share of its air time. A one-eighth share of, say, a Cessna Citation V Ultra goes for $835,000, and each hour of occupied flight will cost you $1,242. Management and other fees are around $7,600 a month...
...least Bell has a shot. Most of the two dozen other wannabes are in the race so they can get a "real" job. Or at least an indoor job, as in the case of Republican Roberto Marsili, a stone mason who boasts of an eighth-grade diploma. Democrat A. Robert Kaufman, an intelligent, balding man whose socialist solutions prompted an opponent to call him Lenin, campaigns nonstop and doesn't seem to have a paycheck to miss. The Rev. Jessica Davis, who refers to herself in the third person as either "Jessica Davis" or "the next mayor of Baltimore," says...
...taken more than a year for the scientists to report their findings in the journal Science. But the wait is hardly over. The bubbles of brine, trapped in crystals of irradiated halite (essentially table salt from space turned blue by radiation), are so small ?- about an eighth or a tenth the diameter of a human hair ?- that they lie beyond the capability of existing technology. Never fear; a researcher in Cambridge, England, is apparently on the verge of developing a highly precise mass spectrometer that might be able to tackle the problem. Until then, NASA asteroid specialist Michael Zolensky...