Archive for ‘March, 2011’

Menino vows to boost local economy with health care discounts

Dorchester businesses may get a boost after Mayor Thomas Menino presented plans to strengthen the local economy during a speech at the 100-year anniversary of the Dorchester Board of Trade, on Tuesday. The improvements include discounts for the public healthcare insurance, a city department specifically for small businesses, according to an article in The Boston [...]

More Americans support gay marriage, study says

In what some consider a signal of change, a poll released March 18 by ABC News and The Washington Post suggested more than half of Americans now support legalizing same sex marriage. In 2004, 32 percent of adults supported gay marriage, according to the poll. That number has risen to 53 percent. While ABC News [...]

BU prof teams up with Wikipedia, encourages students to write for site

Students citing Wikipedia can expect to get Fs on their term papers. But write for Wikipedia, and those same students could get all As in one Boston University professor’s class. Professor of public policy and law David Weil is encouraging students in the graduate program at the School of Management to help Wikipedia generate public [...]

HAUNGS: Life goes on

Loss is a very interesting occurrence in our lives. On some minute level, it happens to us every day, often slipping under the radar. No matter the magnitude of loss that occurs, it accumulates and begins to have profound effects. The great Robert Frost, who always seems to hit me right where I need it, [...]

Students from BU, Harvard, UT prepare for Ghana

For the past 11 years college students have been learning about foreign countries first-hand through Students of the World, a non-profit organization that aims to raise awareness about global social issues. The Boston team of Students of the World includes one member from Boston University, five from Harvard University and one from the University of [...]