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Conventional wisdom says that when it comes to politics, young people don’t matter. As a group, they tend to be apathetic, disillusioned, and too lazy to vote. No one buys into this mindset more than today’s politicians and policy makers...
...over the next two decades—with annual U.S. sales nearing 2 million by the late 1990s, according to a report by a California state agency.That agency, the Air Resources Board, added in a 1999 report that health effects—which stem from carbon monoxide exhaust, particulate matter, and carinogenic compounds in gasoline—were particularly damaging for workers who use the devices.Sue Butler, a board member of the advocacy group Green Decade Cambridge, also urged councillors to consider the ecological impact of blowers. She advocated leaf-raking instead.“If you can do something...
...have consequences of a darker color. (Sure, facilities maintenace says that it was only a clogged drain that caused the backup of green muck. We wonder if their investigation included “karma” as a possible factor.) But we have resisted the temptation to trivialize the matter through any of these means because we firmly believe that this is a time of reflection on irony of the highest caliber presented by the twisted hand of fate. For perhaps this is the only time you will hear of Eliot residents seeking to be placed in Dunster in order...
...sense. It will be of interest, I think, to viewers to say: OK, we know this is which party is going to be in control, what difference is it going to make? And so on. So it seems that it'll be suspenseful and then after that, just a matter of normal curiosity about what the meaning of the results...
...Tuesday's election, Ballot Proposition 240, "The Humane Treatment of Farm Animals Act," is expected to pass by a wide margin in this generally conservative state after a contentious and emotional campaign. No matter that the measure, which forbids the confinement of calves and pregnant sows in narrow crates, affects only a single industrial farm in a state that raises little pork and no commercial veal. But agribusiness and animal welfare advocates agree that a victory in Arizona will invigorate the growing national movement to reform factory farms. "If it works in Arizona, then we'll go on to California...