Earth grown plants groomed for Mars garden
Worcester expert James F. Danielli of Worcester Polytechnic Institute discusses NASA funded research on making Mars habitable for crops. He notes Mars deserts with frozen water beneath dry soil and suggests hardy earth plants could grow in sunlit, low oxygen zones. He warns about genetic and planetary risks and muses on lichens and blue-green algae aiding long term soil development.
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Richard Buck
Associated Press
Worcester, Mass
James F. Danielli
Mars
Danielli
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Great Britain
Earth
Life Sciences
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NASA
State University of New York
Buffalo
Viking
Danielle
Wales
Thomson urges states to defend rights against federal power
Boston AP Gov Mel Thomson urged Massachusetts leaders to resist federal encroachment on states rights at a State Club of Massachusetts gathering. He said he has fought federal intervention in New Hampshire and praised the state’s solvency without a sales or income tax, stressing the need for governors to stay at the forefront of opposition.
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Boston
Meldrim Thomson
Thomson
State Club of
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Marchers Protest Nuke Plant From Manchester to Seabrook
About a dozen demonstrators began a protest march from Manchester to Seabrook to dramatize opposition to the Seabrook nuclear plant. The march coincides with a statewide petition drive labeled New Hampshire Lane Energy Petitions urging a moratorium on atomic plant construction.
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Manchester
N.H
New Hampshire
Seabrook
Public Service Company of New Hampshire
New Hampshire Lane
Seacoast Anti-Pollution League
Greenleaf Harvesters Guild
Merrimack
Nashua
Windham
Exeter
Hampton Falls
Haverhill
Amesbury
Mass
Democratic platform to focus on full employment plank
Rhode Island Governor Philip Noel and a 32 member platform committee hear testimony on the economy at an Eastern Regional session. The party’s platform chair says full employment will be central, stressing unemployment as the day’s great issue and urging a shift of federal spending toward social programs to support inner cities and families.
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Newport
R.I
White House
Rhode Island
Philip W. Noel
Noel
Platform Committee
New York
Abraham Beame
United Auto Workers
Leonard Woodcock
Woodcock
Auto Workers
Harrison J. Goldin
Voiceprints urged as investigative tool not evidence
University of Connecticut professor Dr. Alan Reich cautions that voiceprints have high error rates and should not be admitted as court evidence. His tests show disguises negate accuracy, with only 57 percent correct matching and free-form disguises defeating analysts. He notes limited court acceptance and potential usefulness in narrowing suspect pools for crimes like extortion and obscene calls.
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Storrs
Conn
University of Connecticut
Alan Reich
Reich
University of Iowa
Acoustical Society of America
Washington, D.C
Minnesota
Florida
U.S Supreme Court
Pan American Highway longest world stretch marks 13859 miles
The Pan American Highway runs from Anchorage Alaska to southern Chile covering 13 859 miles and is described as the world’s longest road.
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Anchorage
Alaska
Chile
New England Lawyers Seek Overturn of Edelin Conviction
Boston AP report notes Kenneth Edelin's legal team plans to urge the state Supreme Court to overturn his manslaughter conviction over a fetus aborted in 1973. Prosecutors counter that he killed the fetus by attempting to save it after birth and that the record shows awareness of consequences.
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Boston
State Supreme Court
Kenneth Edelin
Edelin
William P. Homans Jr
Suffolk Superior Court
James P. McGuire
Newman A. Flanagan
Boston City Hospital
U.S. Supreme Court
Flanagan
Trail
TV's no wasteland says Yale professor Thorburn
New Haven AP describes Yale English professor David Thorburn, Princeton-educated, defending television as artistic and deserving of university study. He argues TV reflects American life, offers moral and legal questions through police and medical shows, and praises Marcus Welby as a compassionate doctor.
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New Haven
David Thorburn
Yale
Thorburn
Marcus Welby
Welby
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