From the Boston Globe:
Benedict XVI, in his first extended reflections on evolution published as pope, says that Darwin's theory cannot be finally proven and that science has unnecessarily narrowed humanity's view of creation.
From the Boston Globe:
National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell said Wednesday that a landmark surveillance law needs to be updated to accommodate advances in technology.
From the Boston Globe:
A panel of health experts is calling on New Hampshire families, doctors, schools and communities to fight childhood obesity.
"It's critical for everyone in the community to take a role in combating the obesity problem," Dr. Mary McGowan, a panel member and director of the Cholesterol Treatment Center at Concord Hospital said Wednesday. "We know that we cannot implement all of these recommendations at once, but by creating healthier environments together one step at a time, we can improve the health of our children."
Last fall, the Foundation for Healthy Communities announced a study showing that nearly one-third of New Hampshire children are overweight or obese. The report gave doctors, educators and parents information they'd never had before about how widespread childhood obesity was in the state.
Based on the report, the Foundation convened the special panel of doctors, nurse practitioners, dietitians, behavioral health professionals, disease prevention specialists and public health experts to identify ways to improve children's health.
The New Hampshire Childhood Obesity Expert Panel presented its report Wednesday, offering advice including nutrition information, exercise guidelines and ways to encourage physical activity in children. It also offers lists of related material to help implement the suggestions.
From the Wakefield Observer:
In just over an hour, Town Meeting passed articles 5 through 23 of the annual warrant.
From the Boston Globe:
Unusually high Pacific waves battered beaches from El Salvador to Mexico and carried people out to sea, prompting authorities in some places to order swimmers out of the water Tuesday.
From the Boston Globe:
In the first purchase of his collection, Sellam Ismail loaded the trunk of his car with old computers he stumbled upon at a flea market for $5 apiece. Soon he had filled his three-car garage with what others would consider obsolete junk.
Years later, his collection of early computers, printers, and related parts is piled high across shelves and in chaotic heaps in a 4,500-square-foot warehouse near Silicon Valley. And it is worth real money.
From the Boston Globe:
Michael Skakel plans to call his cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and his celebrity trial attorney as witnesses for an appeal of his murder conviction that starts next week on a claim that two other men may have committed the crime.
From the Boston Globe:
Some 400 illegal migrants have been intercepted entering the U.S. Virgin Islands over the past six months, officials say.
From the Boston Globe:
Shaky testimony and prejudice by the jury foreman should be enough to grant a new trial to a Lodi man convicted last year of terrorism-related charges, a defense lawyer argued Friday.
Attorney Dennis Riordan told a federal judge that jury foreman Joseph Cote was biased against his client because he is Pakistani-American, a Muslim and was charged with terrorist activities.
"We really have a question if we had 12 fair jurors," Riordan said during a hearing in U.S. District Court. "We know that one of them was not fair."
Hamid Hayat's sentencing has been postponed while Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. considers a defense motion seeking a new trial. The judge delayed making a decision.
Hayat, 24, was arrested in June 2005 and convicted last April of lying to federal agents when he denied attending a terrorist training camp in Pakistan in 2003.
"Did Hamid Hayat receive a fair trial?" Tice-Raskin said during the hearing. "The answer is yes -- absolutely yes."
From the Boston Globe:
A 16-year-old boy charged with fatally stabbing a fellow high school student may be close to regaining his memory of the alleged crime and could eventually be fit to stand trial, his lawyer said Friday.
John Odgren, of Princeton, is charged in the Jan. 19 killing of James Alenson, 15, inside a bathroom at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School. He has pleaded not guilty.
On March 26, a court-appointed psychiatrist told the Middlesex Superior Court that Odgren was found competent to stand trial, but defense lawyer Jonathan Shapiro noted then that the report also said his client did not remember the killing.
Since then, Shapiro told The Boston Globe on Friday, his client has been working with mental health specialists in an effort to recover from his amnesia.
From the Boston Globe:
A Canadian court Thursday granted one of China's most-wanted men a delay in any decision on his deportation to face smuggling and corruption charges.
From the Boston Globe:
A man breached security at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Thursday, forcing parts of two terminals to be evacuated, authorities said.
The man, who had not been found by Thursday evening, circumvented security at Terminal 3 at about 4:15 p.m., the Transportation Security Administration said in an announcement.
From the Boston Globe:
Nathan Gerbe scored the go-ahead goal with 4:06 to go, leading Boston College to a 6-4 victory over North Dakota in the Frozen Four semifinals Thursday night.
Boston College (29-11-1) will take a 13-game winning streak into the championship game Saturday night against Michigan State (25-13-3).
From the Wakefield Observer:
With no debate on the $64 million budget, the Wakefield Town Meeting instead focused on what officials planned to do about the ongoing goose problem and the prospects of adding a crematorium near Lake Quannapowitt.
However, many residents raised concerns about Article 3, a $15,000 proposal by the town’s Goose Committee to hire a professional border collie service to address the town’s ongoing goose problem.
“The hard reality is that short of drastically altering the landscape, a permanent solution to the goose control problem does not yet exist,” said Goose Committee Chairman Bronwyn Della-Volpe.
Residents also debated Article 4, an amendment to the town’s bylaws to prevent a crematorium from being built in Wakefield. This article was sponsored by Meg Michaels, an environmental advocate who filed a lawsuit against Lakeside Cemeteries in hopes of preventing them from building a crematorium inside the Lakeside Church basement near Lake Quannapowitt. Michaels said burning dead bodies would release mercury and other pollutants into the air.
I know what you're thinking, "Where the hell have you been?" Around, but really busy. But enough about me, let's get to the news.
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