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LET'S HOPE Mayor Tom Menino is recovering nicely from his recent knee surgery, and using the unexpected downtime to contemplate something he said shortly after his thumping victory to an unprecedented fifth term.

Date : Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:36:49 +0400 IN HARVARD EXPLICATING TURKS, ARMENIANS AND PAIN Hurriyet Nov 18 2009 Turkey The Boston - Tsai Auditorium located in Cambridge, Massachusetts is a Harvard University campus.

House leaders are ordering their staff to take five furlough days, although lawmakers will not have to take them.

The Armenian Mirror-Spectator 755 Mount Auburn St. Watertown, MA 02472 Tel: 924-4420 Fax: 924-2887 Web: http://www.mirrorspectator.com E-mail: editor@mirrorspectator.com November 21, 2009 1. Tension, Emotion at Harvard Turkish-Armenian Forum 2. 'Hove' Is Short on Length, Long on Symbolism 3. Repatriate Mooradian Relives His Time Back in the USSR 4.

Brandon Adams, who teaches behavioral finance at Harvard University's Department of Economics, says some of the best candidates for Wall Street trading jobs are the professional... Are Obama's economic policies actually working? Intelligence Squared posed this question to six policy experts at a debate in New York this week.

In a paper on how the term "apartheid" is being used to deny Israel's right to exist, Robbie Sabel concluces : The Apartheid campaign against Israel has another revealing feature.

The Collective Imagination is designed to explore some of the most compelling issues facing the world today and the ways that science and technology can help us address them.

The dean of Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences said he will reduce the number of professors in an effort to balance a $110 million deficit.

New electronic record systems installed in thousands of U.S. hospitals have done little to rein in skyrocketing healthcare costs, Harvard University researchers said in a study released on Friday.

Ligon Discovery, Inc., which uses proprietary small molecule microarray technology to find drugs against high-value targets, today announced that it has raised $1M in seed financing led by incTANK Ventures.

The GOP has seized on the uproar over the revised recommendations for breast cancer screening, forcing the Obama administration to focus on political damage control.

Cash-strapped Mexico City is pressing ahead with new bus lines and bike lanes in 2010, buoyed by prestigious recognition for a world-class transit system that has reduced pollution in one of the globe's largest cities.

The price of Facebook Inc. stock on exchanges for private companies has jumped as much as 42 percent in the past four months as membership of the site topped 300 million users and the company turned cash flow positive.

Main Category: Health Insurance / Medical Insurance Also Included In: Public Health Article Date: 18 Nov 2009 - 6:00 PST "Uninsured patients with traumatic injuries, such as car crashes, falls and gunshot wounds, were almost twice as likely to die in the hospital as similarly injured patients with health insurance, according to a troubling new ...

Should Rhode Island decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana, as some other states, including Massachusetts, have done? Judging from the makeup of a newly created commission that met at the State House on Wednesday, that would seem a possible - if not likely - recommendation to state lawmakers when they return in January: roll ...

Longtime Louisville Mayor Jerry Abramson is heading to Harvard University to speak to a group of new mayors.

How much good will can an apology - and half a billion dollars - buy? A lot, Goldman Sachs is hoping.

Dr. Walter Bishop follows in a long line of mad scientists. An unbalanced genius like Bishop going at it in his lab is a pop-culture staple.

Conservatives who entered Commons between 1950 and 1970 died almost twice as wealthy as losing Tory candidates, study finds Press Association guardian.co.uk , Tuesday 17 November 2009 12.52 GMT Serving in parliament almost doubles the wealth of Conservative MPs thanks to lucrative employment offered on retirement, according to researchers.

King size ads like this one are scheduled to appear on 10 TriMet buses for a month to promote a new book by Greg Epstein, the humanist chaplain at Harvard University.