This wasn’t the way the University of Miami wanted to open play in the Atlantic Coast Conference — falling 3-0 to Boston College at the Hurricanes’ home field.
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Miami Hurricanes baseball team blanked by Boston College (Miami Herald)
This wasn’t the way the University of Miami wanted to open play in the Atlantic Coast Conference — falling 3-0 to Boston College at the Hurricanes’ home field.
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Miami Hurricanes baseball team blanked by Boston College (Miami Herald)
WELLFLEET — It looked like a lost cause. The dolphin’s dorsal fin was not moving, and many of the rescue team veterans watching across the marsh thought the mammal, stranded in the mud, was dead.

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On the beach, a saving race
CAMBRIDGE — Harvard University, the liberal arts bastion that tried several times in the early 20th century to unload its engineering program on MIT, is in the midst of a scientific renaissance.

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At Harvard, reengineering science
The state’s high court said for the first time yesterday that police do not have to give a Miranda warning to a suspect who has consulted a lawyer and has that lawyer with him or her while being questioned by police.

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Miranda protection reduced by SJC
The Hingham Advisory Committee has approved a school budget that cuts funding by $52,600, prompting a sharp rebuke from Superintendent Dorothy Galo.

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Budget ‘offensive’ to superintendent
Alabama police called in a bomb squad after they discovered what they described as a “suspicious device’’ yesterday at the Huntsville home of Amy Bishop, the former Massachusetts resident accused of fatally shooting three colleagues last month at the University of Alabama.

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‘Suspicious device’ is detonated by robot in Bishop’s Ala. home
The state is set to run out of millions of dollars in federal stimulus funding that last year helped pay for 7,000 summer jobs for youths in Massachusetts, and the US Senate earlier this week rejected a proposal to extend the funding, outraging community organizers who argue that money for jobs should be a priority.

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Senate rejects extending funding for youth summer jobs program
Plucky, the pet chicken that sparked a debate on poultry ownership in Waltham, will not be around to see the city’s zoning laws made more fowl-friendly.

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Plucky the chicken dies after dog attack
With spring just around the corner, reader Janice Izenberg tells GlobeWatch that trees in her Somerville neighborhood seem to be headed for a dangerous entanglement with utility wires.

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Planting of young trees sparks concern
Legislative leaders told cities and towns yesterday to brace for a cut of up to 4 percent in local aid next year, a combined hit of up to $200 million to the money communities rely on to balance budgets and keep teachers, police officers, and firefighters employed.

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State may cut $200m from local aid