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Facebook wants to start a version of Instagram designed specifically for children, and a pair of Massachusetts lawmakers are among a group of Congressmen who don't like the idea. Facebook, which owns Instagram, has plans to create a version of the photo-sharing app that children under 13 can
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There seems to be some confusion about the meaning of the words "Jim Crow" these days. Many of the same people who would reduce our country's history almost entirely to its racial sins, and particularly its historic mistreatment of blacks, seem not to appreciate what "
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Opponents of a proposed sex education curriculum in Worcester are planning to hold a march against it early Wednesday morning — a day before the city's school committee votes on whether to adopt it. The curriculum, called Rights, Responsibility, Respect and published by an organization called Advocates for Youth,
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Will the Rights, Respect and Responsibility sex education curriculum be used in Worcester Public Schools next school year? The Worcester School Committee plans to vote on that proposal later this week, at its meeting scheduled for Thursday, May 6.
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U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) wanted to end discrimination against Asian-American students in college admissions based on race, but none of his peers on the other side of the aisle supported his endeavor. That includes U.S. Senator Ed Markey (D-Malden) and U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Cambridge) Cruz
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Somerville city officials are interested in issuing lower parking violation fines to poor people and people who don't drive large vehicles. The proposals, which are still in the planning stage, came up earlier this week during a city government board meeting.
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Larry McMurtry died on March 25th at the age of 84. An extraordinary writer, he was arguably the best American novelist of the 20th century. He took exquisite care with observation, word choice, and character development. His books about the American West will influence us for years to come. Of
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"Pawns are the soul of the game." So says the young, woefully naive Bernard Nathanson to his father during a game of chess, doting girlfriend at his side. As Nick Loeb and Cathy Allyn's film Roe v. Wade begins, the line foreshadows the introduction of Norma
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