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...obstacle to construction could be neighbors’ objections, but if no one comes forward in the public hearing, there is a good chance that Daedalus can follow through with the plans, said Sean P. O’Grady, a zoning specialist from the Cambridge Inspectional Services Department...
Lake, 65, a retired computer specialist, was planning to spend this year writing his seventh screenplay (sci-fi, time travel), convinced that this one would be good enough to get produced. Instead he has become obsessed with the hunt for the anthrax killer. He works on the case up to eight hours a day, reading everything written about the subject and launching his own unofficial investigations. Several times a day he logs on to the Internet to share his findings with four dozen similarly obsessed citizens--some of them journalists, some of them research scientists, some of them, like Lake...
...Many nations go through a motorbike phase, but "It's happened much faster (in Vietnam) than in almost any other country," says Charles Melhuish, a Manila-based transportation specialist with the Asian Development Bank. Bikes now account for 94% of all vehicles in Vietnam, the highest percentage in the region...
...which Muhammad shone was his marksmanship. Although he was never trained as a sniper, Muhammad's Marksmanship Badge carried an "expert" rating - earned by the ability to hit 36 out of 40 targets at distances ranging from 25 to 300 meters. He was also designated a hand-grenade specialist...
...away in 1989. We were married for 39 years. He was ill for two years with bladder cancer and then bowel cancer. He was originally given three months to live, and he just would not accept this. He wanted to live. At the very end, I called his pain specialist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering. She said, "I can't help him unless he comes into the hospital." Even after all these years I still cry when I think about it--he wanted life so much that he was willing to go back into the hospital. There just wasn't anything...