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Amid concerns about the rising cost of fuel, the Cambridge City Council approved appropriations to help low-income families in Cambridge pay for heating oil and to supplement benefits for families that had exhausted their heating benefits at its regular meeting last night. The meeting also marked the first steps toward renaming Plympton Street in honor of deceased Pulitzer Prize winner and Crimson alumnus David L. Halberstam ’55. The proposal, which will require the Council’s Government Operations and Rules Committee to hold a public hearing about the potential name change, was unanimously approved...
...decided I was not willing to pay $180 for a bit of oil, no matter how good it is. Of course, I am not willing to pay $40,000 for a car either. But I now understand how a beer can be worth $100 and that a butter junkie isn't a reprobate for dropping $50 on a fix. And if you're somehow rich enough, there may be times when kicking back and enjoying an insanely expensive vinegar makes sense...
...Olive oil $182 1,000-mL gift pack of Lambda...
...samples some of the costliest comestibles [This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] THE PRICE $120 24-oz. bottle of Samuel Adams Utopias beer $50 3-lb. container of the Best Butter on Earth $182 A set of two 500-mL bottles of Lambda olive oil WHY IT COSTS SO MUCH The brandy-colored beverage is a blend of malts aged in wood, then finished in sherry and Madeira casks The Five Star Butter Co. makes its lavish 83%-butterfat product from fresh, unpasteurized milk Hand-extracted from Koroneiki olives, the low-acidity and fruity extra-virgin...
...sweep of other East Asian and Pacific countries. As the talks have made more headway, Hill has gotten greater latitude from the Administration. With some balking, the North has shut down its nuclear reactor at Yongbyon. Recent talks have dangled carrots before Pyongyang like promising deliveries of heavy fuel oil in exchange for further denuclearization. The New York Philharmonic's visit to North Korea in February is not a direct result of Hill's work, but the event would surely have been less likely without the improved atmospherics he's helped bring about. And a world that's making music...