Word: localitis
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Harvard's McCain supporters have similar events planned--and will participate in a "community service day" on Jan. 22, when they'll all volunteer at local soup kitchens and senior citizens homes...
...Local political analyst Glenn S. Koocher '71, host of the political television show "Cambridge Inside Out," said he had heard speculation that Decker might change her vote from Born to another candidate after a certain number of ballots...
Cuban boat boy Elian Gonzalez's fate will be settled in court, but not in the Florida family court that ruled in favor of his Miami relatives. Attorney General Janet Reno Wednesday dismissed Judge Rosa Rodriguez's ruling granting temporary custody of Elian to a local relative as irrelevant since the court had no jurisdiction in a federal matter. Reno informed lawyers for Elian's Miami relatives that they'd have to go to a federal courthouse to challenge the INS decision to reunite the boy with his father. The Florida Gonzalez family expressed disappointment, but said they would file...
...reap the environmental cachet that would come with the first "all natural" plastic. This week, Dow Cargill Polymer, a combined effort of Dow Chemical and Cargill Inc., prompted sighs in the Monsanto and DuPont boardrooms when it announced that it would be the first to bring PLA to your local grocery by sometime next year...
...secret this decision really pisses off western ranchers and miners who want to maintain their grazing and mining rights," says TIME science editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt. And Arizona's Republican power structure isn't too pleased about it either; Arizona's governor, along with John McCain and local officials, fought against Clinton's planned "unilateral" move, encouraging the President to include Arizona voters in the decision-making process...