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BOSTON -- The long-awaited renovation of one of downtown New Bedford's crumbling landmarks will finally become a reality this week when Gov. A. Paul Cellucci gives the green light to the rehabilitation of the Star Store.
The Cellucci administration and local officials were hammering out logistics of what is tentatively scheduled as a Thursday morning announcement outside the Star Store, at which Cellucci is expected to announce a final agreement on the project, according to Sen. Mark C.W. Montigny, D-New Bedford.
Hank Seaman
The man sat there in the crowded and popular restaurant -- quietly, patiently, placidly -- observing the little dramas playing out all around him. Each was a separate and distinct morality play. Between the hustling servers and the anxious diners, he thought he could detect almost all of the major themes.
Sorrow and joy.
Poverty and wealth.
Love and hate.
And just about everything in between.
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- A bomb exploded inside a crowded Planet Hollywood restaurant yesterday, killing one person and injuring 24. A man claiming responsibility said it was revenge for U.S. attacks on targets in Sudan and Afghanistan.
The caller to the radio station Cape Talk claimed responsibility on behalf of a group called Muslims Against Global Oppression, according to Marianne Merten, a journalist at the station. Police refused to comment on the call.
By Michelle Faul, Associated Press writer
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- The U.S. government yesterday announced the indictment of seven aging Cuban exiles, including a director of Miami's influential Cuban American National Foundation, on charges of plotting to assassinate Fidel Castro.
While there have been numerous plots and claims of plots to kill Cuba's communist leader since he seized power in 1959, the indictment was believed to be the first such accusation in a court of law.
The seven accused "did knowingly and unlawfully conspire, combine and agree together ... to kill, with malice aforethought, Fidel Castro ...," the indictment said. It suggests more people could be charged, saying the plotters conspired "with other persons known and unknown to the grand jury."
By Sandra Sobieraj, Associated Press writer
EDGARTOWN -- President Clinton sailed wind-whipped waters with his wife and daughter near their island vacation quarters yesterday and plotted a mainland return to combat talk that the Monica Lewinsky controversy has crippled him politically.
As if he had turned a corner, the president -- who, for days, confined himself to private meals with close friends and let his golf clubs grow dusty -- put a new, public face on his family vacation.
The Clintons sailed for 90 minutes near Martha's Vineyard with the man once known as "the most trusted man in America," veteran TV newsman Walter Cronkite, aboard Cronkite's blue-hulled Wyntje.
CAMBRIDGE -- A judge ruled yesterday that the trial of the two men accused of molesting and murdering a 10-year-old Cambridge boy will remain in Cambridge.
Superior Court Judge Judith Cowin rejected requests from defense attorneys representing Salvatore Sicari and Charles Jaynes that the proceedings be moved to another part of the state.
She noted that even the high-profile trials of Louise Woodward, the au pair accused of killing the Newton boy in her care, and John Salvi, who went on a deadly shooting spree at two abortion clinics, were not moved.
MOSCOW -- The Russian government battled yesterday to pull the country out of economic and political crisis, putting off its debt repayments and signaling that some hard-line opponents may be given top posts.
However, in a sign that hopes of a quick recovery are crumbling, the ruble plummeted 9.2 percent in trading yesterday -- its biggest one-day plunge in nearly four years.
The currency closed at 7.86 to the dollar, or 12.72 cents, down from 7.14 or 14.01 cents Monday. Trading was suspended twice when the Central Bank was overwhelmed by demand for dollars.
Most of the many home-based businesses in this area seem to work well because of the low overhead involved.
Some of these businesses have to eventually move to larger quarters, but others can survive very well in this situation. One of these is Vinnie Johnson's alarm business.
Mr. Johnson had previously worked for Princess House in Dighton. Mr. Johnson, who was a mold repairer thought that he had job security with the glass makers. In 1986, Princess House, like so many other New England manufacturing companies, decided to move South. Mr. Johnson was laid off.
By Valerie A. Russo, New England Wire Service
In ancient Egypt, it was never too early to start planning your funeral. The Egyptians believed death was the beginning of a new life, and it required significant spiritual and physical preparation. They developed sophisticated embalming procedures, built monumental pyramids and amassed vast collections of objects to facilitate their ongoing journey.
For 13 mummies and other priceless ancient treasures, the journey took an unexpected turn. Millennia after their burial and thousands of miles from home, they are residing in a newly renovated, climate-controlled and earthquake-proof exhibition space at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
On Sept. 27, the city of Framingham will honor the 10,000-plus men and women who have taken part in the largest, longest and most productive study of heart disease in the world.
After careful consideration, Samuel Seltzer has decided not to make the trip from his apartment in West Palm Beach, Fla.
"Nah," he says, waving the very idea out the window. "What do I wanna do that for?"
BOSTON -- Darren Lewis hit a tie-breaking home run leading off the seventh inning and Nomar Garciaparra went 4-for-4 as the Boston Red Sox beat the Oakland Athletics 3-2 last night.
Garciaparra, who went 0-for-5 in his previous game Sunday, singled in his first three at-bats before doubling in the seventh to equal his career-high hit game, accomplished four times during his 1997 AL Rookie of the Year season.
The win was Boston's eighth in nine games against the Athletics this season. Mike Blowers had a solo homer for Oakland, which suffered only its second loss in eight games, coming off its season-best 6-2 homestand.
The snap of a chilly late August morning awakens an old feeling deep inside many people, that melancholy but at the same time invigorating feeling that school is once again ready to begin -- and you're going. The back-to-school advertisements take on either urgency or nostalgia, and the debates over teacher testing start to become annoying for those who have to watch the responsible parties point fingers while everyone else stands on the sidelines. But you don't have to stand on the sidelines. Below you see a coupon that is your ticket to getting involved in a small way and helping improve the fortunes of all the young people in the school system today. A talented, committed group of people has been working for several months now to find new ways to bring people of all kinds into the schools to do something basic, fundamentally important, and above all a lot of fun: read aloud to the students.
For the moment the whole focus of the debate around Bill Clinton is: Should he be president anymore? But equally important is the question: Can he be president anymore? On the issue of should he be president, the public is divided, but a substantial majority still feel that Clinton should remain in office. They may think less of him, but they still think a lot of his agenda. Whether that majority holds up in the face of the sordid details that will come out from Ken Starr's investigation is unclear.
What might actually influence the public most is the question of "can" Clinton still govern in any reasonably effective manner.
Malachy McCourt has always been a man mad for books.
"If you'd given me the choice of a book or a dinner, I'd take the book every time," says McCourt, sitting in his book-lined Manhattan living room.
McCourt is the younger brother of Frank, the retired New York City schoolteacher whose "Angela's Ashes" -- a memoir about growing up poor in Ireland -- won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize and has been on the best-seller list for nearly two years.
Joanna McQuillan Weeks
As the days of August evaporate before our eyes, let's wish a happy 75th birthday to one of the joys of summer, the Popsicle.
The frozen treat that's cooled many an overheated youngster was patented by Frank Epperson in 1923. But it actually had its origins 18 years earlier, when, as a boy of 11, he left a mixture of powdered soda flavoring, water and a stirring stick on his porch. That night, San Francisco experienced record low temperatures, and young Frank awoke to find his leftover drink had been transformed into a frozen pop, which he dubbed the "Epsicle." The rest, as they say, is history.
Fast-forward to 1923, when Epperson was running a lemonade stand at a Alameda, Calif., amusement park. The commercial possibilities of a portable frozen refresher dawned on the entrepreneur, and he named the product "Popsicle," inspired by his children's requests for "Pop's 'cicle."
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If SouthCoast residents reflect the national trends, having fun in the kitchen is a popular leisure activity. Cooking creatively gives equal opportunity pleasure to men, women and children of all ages.
The Dartmouth Building Supply's Design Center thinks that giving area residents an opportunity to cook with some of the area's best chefs might provide just the pleasure home-bound cooks are seeking.
In the past few weeks, the Design Center staff members have been putting together a series of 10 cooking events to be held in their life-sized and fully functional demonstration kitchens.
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