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In an interview after he'd just lost his mayoral bid in Northampton by a mere 344 votes, Michael Bardsley didn't exactly sound defeated."I'm feeling very good about things," Bardsley told the Advocate. "It was a very successful campaign in...The World This Week: Farewell From a Father
It was an accident, this missing of a familiar highway exit in my wife's childhood home in Massachusetts. And yet it wasn't an accident at all. We had arranged, on this return visit, to stay at a hotel in the area for the weekend of her brother's wedding....Pandemic Report: Farm to You?
As swine flu spreads, affecting nearly 6 million Americans by now, spreading fever and discomfort and creating long lines of people waiting for vaccine that's in short supply, reports say that scrutiny of large hog farming operations has slowed down, not speeded...Pandemic Report: Degrees of Mandatory
On September 2, 2009, a memo was released by John Auerbach, Massachusetts Commissioner of Public Health. Its subject: "False Rumors Regarding Mandatory Vaccination for H1N1 Influenza." The opening paragraph reads:"Many of you may have heard rumors that...E-Edition
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