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By Robert Barr, Associated Press writer
LONDON -- The IRA claimed responsibility yesterday for a blast that ripped through a double-decker bus in central London, killing one person and injuring nine. Police said they believed the bomb was detonated accidentally and the carrier may have been among the victims.
Two people were arrested yesterday under anti-terrorism laws, Scotland Yard said, but it refused to say whether they were connected to the Sunday night explosion. Police also said a weapon was recovered from the wreckage, but gave no details.
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By David Levesque, Standard-Times staff writer
When it comes to weathering a harsh New England winter, Carol Russell says her acres of grape vines -- now bare and jutting out of the freezing soil -- are much like humans.
"If people get a flu in November, they have a very difficult time getting healthy during the rest of the winter," explained the vice president of Westport Rivers Vineyard & Winery.
"Like a human, the vine needs to be healthy if it's going to make it through the winter in good shape."
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Albert Romao Madruga Da Costa was born in Horta in 1940. He has served as the regional secretary of tourism and transportation, as the vice president of the Regional Legislature of the Azores and as president of the Legislative Assembly. He took office as the president of the Regional Government of the Azores after former President Joao Bosco Mota Amaral resigned last October after nearly 20 years in office.
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They kicked tires, pondered sticker prices and went for test drives.
Best of all, area car dealers said as the Presidents Day weekend wound down yesterday, they bought.
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By Carol Lee Costa-Crowell, Standard-Times staff writer
ACUSHNET -- Selectman incumbent Peter W. Koczera is making a second run for a three-year term and has issued his opponent a challenge to debate.
"I would like to extend a challenge to my opponent (local restaurateur Howard S. Plaud) to debate me on the issues," Mr. Koczera said. "I will make myself available at any time and place that my opponent desires; however the debates must be conducted by a neutral party with questions from the public."
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NEW BEDFORD -- Luis Ortiz, the Normandin Junior High School student who needs a kidney transplant, has some new friends: members of the New Bedford Police Department.
City police are sponsoring a two-day basketball tournament on Friday and Saturday at the New Bedford Boys-Girls Club on Jenney Street. This year's event, which starts at 6 both nights and is subtitled "Luis '96," also will feature an "Old Timers'" game Saturday night.
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For a 10-year-old Dartmouth boy who died of cancer, he will run. And he will run for another child living with the disease.
Alan Azevedo, an employee at Commonwealth Electric Co. in Wareham, is raising $3,500 to run in the Alaska Marathon in June.
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NEW BEDFORD -- For more than 20 years, Liz DiCarlo has gone far beyond her duties as a nurse.
She is an active member of the community, unafraid of being arrested for what she believes in.
A founding member of the Treatment on Demand Agency, she protested toxic waste material at Otis Air National Guard Base on Cape Cod in the 1980s, which led to her arrest for civil disobedience.
She also protested the nation's aid for Nicaragua's Contras and was part of a committee that explored how drugs from Central America made their way to the United States.
Ms. DiCarlo, a first-generation Italian-American, finally has been honored for her contributions to New Bedford and her continuing dedication to fighting the AIDS epidemic.
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NEW BEDFORD -- The Cantabile Quartet will return for a concert of chamber music at 7:30 p.m. Friday in Rodman Hall of the parish house of Grace Episcopal Church at County and School streets.
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PLYMOUTH -- To address the concerns and interests of those who use the waters at the mouth of Massachusetts Bay, the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary is forming an advisory council.
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TOKYO -- Japanese police began investigating yesterday whether criminal negligence was a factor in the tunnel collapse that killed 20 people, and villagers erected an altar at the accident site to mourn the victims.
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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -- The severely brain-damaged policeman who astonished doctors and family by talking for the first time in 7« years may speak again, although how and when is a mystery.
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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- A Bosnian Serb general failed to show up for scheduled talks with Muslim and Croat rivals yesterday, snubbing NATO and sending a clear message Serb leaders will not be pushed into peace at any price.
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WASHINGTON -- Government doctors thought they'd finally proved Americans get life-saving new medicines as fast as or faster than Europeans, but critics are insisting that's not good enough.
Afraid the good news could slow congressional efforts to revamp the Food and Drug Administration, its detractors are charging that hidden red tape forces U.S. drug makers to spend 15 years developing a single medicine.
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BOSTON -- As the director of an AIDS prevention clinic, Lawrence Robinson knows how difficult it is to teach young people -- especially young black males -- about the dangers of unprotected sex.
Once, he was preaching his message to a teen-ager on Boston's streets. "What he said to me was, 'What do I have to look forward to? I'm having sex, I like it, and I'm not going to let anybody take that away from me,"' Mr. Robinson said.
A new state campaign aimed exclusively at black men is trying to reform such attitudes. And health officials say it comes none too soon.
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BOSTON -- Attorney J.W. Carney Jr. says his client, John C. Salvi III, was insane when he went on a shooting rampage at two clinics that perform abortions. But good luck getting the jury -- or even his client -- to agree.
The insanity defense rarely works and many legal analysts suggest Mr. Salvi's case will be no different.
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BOSTON -- Police suspect that a pipe bomb was set off in a Boston restaurant yesterday morning.
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BOSTON -- The racketeering and extortion trial of alleged New England Mafia boss Francis P. "Cadillac Frank" Salemme has been postponed until after Labor Day, his lawyer said.
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BOSTON -- Used car superlots offering 350 to 1,000 used vehicles -- and no haggling over prices -- may arrive in New England soon, although none are planned yet.
In Massachusetts, the typical used car lot has 100 vehicles for sale.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Apple Computer Inc., seeking to revive its stalled licensing strategy and boost its shrinking market share, said yesterday it has granted rights to its Macintosh operating system to Motorola Inc.
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By Natalie White, Standard-Times staff writer
Birth control isn't as simple as popping a pill.
It's an ever-changing consideration in women's lives, and one health practitioners often don't fully understand, says Dartmouth resident and nursing professor Peggy S. Matteson.
In her new book, "Advocating for Self: Women's Decisions concerning Contraception," Ms. Matteson explores the lives of more than 40 women through intensive interviews.
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Today, he is a family legend. In 1888, at age 18, John Thomas Gayton was asking for trouble.
He was smart, proud, ambitious -- qualities that could get a black man lynched in the cottonfield country around Yazoo City, Miss. They'd already come for his brother, and J.T. was worried they might come for him.
Then the white doctor who employed him as coachman announced he was heading West to a muddy frontier town called Seattle. Would he like to come along?
J.T. Gayton never looked back.
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St. Luke's operates its own blood bank, allowing the hospital to reduce the costs of buying blood products and maintaining supplies on the premises. The on-site donation center also enables hospital staff to respond immediately when blood is needed for an emergency.
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By Eric Gongola, Standard-Times staff writer
The same punch kept coming, again and again, a right hand straight to the chin. But Mike Halstead was feeling too weak in the knees to concern himself with the throbbing in his cheek.
"I had been confined to bed for about three weeks with pneumonia. I wasn't up to par. My doctor told me I shouldn't fight," he said. "But after all those months of training, I had to."
So he did. Or at least he tried, willing himself off his stool and into the line of fire, a sitting duck for the right hand of Manny Teo of Providence.
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By Buddy Thomas, Standard-Times Senior Sports Editor
NEW BEDFORD -- It was a game of runs and, unfortunately for New Bedford, Brockton ran a little more and a lot longer on its way to running the Whalers out of their own gym.
Tory Burke scored a game-high 21 points and led four Brockton players in double figures as the visiting Boxers ended New Bedford's three-year reign as Big 3 champion with an 83-57 victory last night, handing the Whalers what coach Ed Rodrigues called "our worst home loss in memory."
The win gave the 14-4 Boxers a sweep (4-0) of their Big 3 schedule and dropped New Bedford to 1-2 in the conference and 13-5 overall.
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A Freudian slip? A slip on the ice onto the seat of Harry Sinden's pants for sure.
The President/General Manager needs only to think back 11 years to when he last staggered through a season like this one.
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INGLEWOOD, Calif. -- Kevin Stevens wasn't happy about the way he left the Boston Bruins. In his first game against them, he gained a measure of revenge.
Dealt to the Los Angeles Kings on Jan. 25 for Rick Tocchet, Stevens finally scored Monday in his eighth game with his new team and helped turn a two-goal third-period deficit into a 3-3 tie.
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FORT MYERS, Fla. -- He can't just slip unobtrusively into camp. Always, with Roger Clemens, the arrival is an event.
His teammates can stroll in, drop their equipment and quickly blend into the mix. Not Clemens.
Usually, there is some unresolved issue at stake. What does he think about the new manager? How does he feel about the trade of a close friend? What about that scrape in a Houston bar? How is the shoulder, the elbow, the groin?
This spring was no different in that regard.
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I was never a big fan of Tommy Morrison, but give him this: he was an honest pug. And his fights were usually exciting; give him that, too.
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DARTMOUTH -- It's been a long, hard road for Christine Lentini and Jen Connery, but the UMass Dartmouth seniors share a passion for basketball that has gotten them through some trying times.
Wins have been hard to come by the last three seasons for the Corsairs, who have an overall record of 17-55.
This year's team wrapped up a 5-19 regular season on Saturday, with a hard-fought 82-74 loss to Southern Maine, the Little East Conference champion and the top-ranked team in the NCAA Division III Northeast Region poll.
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FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Luis Alicea is accustomed to having to win a job in spring training. For a time, it looked like this spring would be different.
After a slow start, Alicea came on strong in the second half of last season, and hit .270 as the Sox everyday second baseman.
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LOS ANGELES -- Big Brother will be watching every step Los Angeles Marathon runners take this year, but no one seems to mind.
A German-engineered computer chip fastened to each entrant's shoelaces will mark start, half-marathon, and finish times.
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NORTH QUINCY -- New Bedford scored in every event and was bolstered by Jon Araujo's victory in the 1-meter diving, as the Whalers placed second at the South Sectional Championship Meet at North Quincy High.
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PROVIDENCE -- There is a debate surrounding the University of Massachusetts basketball team these days which centers on a reported 500-pound weight on the team's shoulders.
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Two is the magic number for Wareham's Jodie Maxim, as in the number of points she needs to reach the 1,000-point mark in her high school career.
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No matter what happens to the presidential candidacy of Steve Forbes, give the multimillionaire magazine publisher credit for making the flat tax a household word across the nation.
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