Mass. Only State With Shrinking Population
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Massachusetts was the only state in the nation to lose residents in 2004, U.S. Census data shows.
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On Monday, CQPolitics.com wrote about the continued importance of the presidential primary in New Hampshire. The state also holds another distinction: It is one of only two states in which the governor serves a two-year term instead of four years. In which other state does the governor serve a two-year term?  Wisconsin Alaska Maine Vermont
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St. Mary's County was once a place where no doctor wanted to settle. In the 1970s, the county hospital used decades-old equipment, struggled to make payroll and had no full-time specialists -- not even an obstetrician, although more than 600 babies were born there each year.
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Revere and Peabody left for the Northeastern Conference. Waltham and Arlington are skipping out this fall for the Dual County League. With rumors of Malden and Medford leaving, the Greater Boston League could drop to just three teams. Greater Boston? Try Big Three North - with Everett, Somerville, and Cambridge.
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org. Alabama weighed in as the heaviest state in 2003 because nearly one third of its residents are obese, while Colorado ranked thinnest, with only 16 percent of its
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The Ocean State was looking pretty dry. Rhode Island had not seen a single day of film production last year. Or 2002 for that matter.
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Just a few years ago, Missouri trailed only Texas and Virginia in the number of convicted killers put to death. Today, Missouri's death row is gradually being emptied out by the courts.
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Charles County could run out of drinking water by 2030 because its fast-growing population is depleting the county's underground supply, new findings by the state show.
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NEW ENGLAND'S rivers, abundant forests, and whaling industry once made it rich in energy, but for more than a century the region has suffered from being at the end of supply lines for coal, natural gas, and oil. Now an alternative source of energy, grain-based biofuels, is emerging, and once again New England seems to be at a geographic disadvantage. ...
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States like Massachusetts are losing 72 acres per day to urbanization.
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In Tennessee, nearly a half-million people are warned they could lose their government-supported health care. In Maine, the move is in the opposite direction - the state is expanding its
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AMHERST -- A lot of bits were being champed very hard. For the University of Massachusetts football team, this past offseason seemed to last for years. The Minutemen didn't need much reminding about how they lost the last two games of 2005, falling short of the NCAA Division 1-AA playoffs after starting out with a 7-2 record and a No. ...
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A federal study shows that per capita spending in the lowest-spending state, Utah, was only 59 percent of that in Massachusetts, the highest-spending state.
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BOSTON Massachusetts is the least-prepared of all states to handle a bioterrorist attack, according to a study released yesterday.
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WESTBOROUGH -- Massachusetts faces several years of lackluster job growth unless innovations spur the state's listless economy, according to an economic forecast.
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By Sonia Ramachandran; Jaswinder Kaur; Sim Bak Heng; Syed  Umar Ariff;  KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia is shrinking. Literally.  Thousands of lives and millions of ringgit in property are in danger in at least 93 areas of the country as the hungry sea continues to gobble up land.
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Minnesotans and residents of the other Upper Great Plains states have some of the lowest mortality rates in the country.