t. Franklin Forecast, Weather Page anytime: B6 Edition MassLive.com Hampshire Low 18 Today: High 42, The The Republican Company MONDAY, Short form expected on census The Census Bureau has chosen its Boston office in preparation for the 2010 head count. By STAN FREEMAN It was one of those "why me?" things. Known as the long form, it was viewed by many who received it during the once-adecade federal census as akin to an IRS audit. On it, more than 50 questions were asked during the 2000 census (as opposed to seven on the more common short form), addressing such topics as marital status, housing, place of work, education, disability and income.
One in six households received it. But, as the U.S. Census Bureau begins to gear up for the next national head count in 2010, the long form is gone. Well, almost. "This will be a short form only census," said Michael J.
Horgan, assistant regional census manager for the Northeast office of the bureau. Instead, the information on the long form, which is used to distribute nearly $200 billion in federal aid annually to states, will be and is already being gathered through the American Community Survey, which is a form sent to households on a rolling basis through the decade. That survey began in 2005. The federal government decided it needed more current information to make funding decisions than could be gathered once every 10 years. But even with only a short Please see Census, Page A4 Republican.
MARCH 24,2008 i Staff photo by DAVID MOLNAR The Rev. Howard-John Wesley, senior pastor at St. John's Congregational Church in Springfield, wipes tears from his eyes during Resurrection Sunday service at Symphony Hall in Springfield yesterday. After 10 years at St. John's, Wesley will be leaving in April for a church in Alexandria, Virginia.
"There are a few moments in life when you recognize you are part of a really special moment in time. This is one of those moments as I celebrate my last Resurrection Sunday with you," Wesley said. See story, Page B1 Nanotechnology poised for use In the last decade, the University of Massachusetts has won nearly $74 million in grants and awards for nanotechnology research. By STAN FREEMAN AMHERST It's been riding under the radar for most people, but nanotechnology the science of the very small is starting to find a place in the public consciousness. While more people now recognize the term, many still do not know what it means or what its value will be.
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Associated Press Attacks in Baghdad probably stemmed from rising tenBAGHDAD Rockets and sions between rival Shiite mortars pounded Baghdad's groups some of whom may U.S.-protected Green Zone have been behind the Green yesterday and a suicide car Zone blasts. It was the most bomber struck an Iraqi army sustained assault in months post in the northern city of against the nerve center of the Mosul in a surge of attacks U.S. mission. that killed at least 57 people The deadliest attack of the nationwide. day was in Mosul when a suiThe latest violence under- cide driver slammed his vehiscored the fragile security sit- cle through a security uation and the resilience of checkpoint in a hail of gunfire both Sunni and Shiite extrem- and detonated his explosives ist groups as the war enters its in front of an Iraqi headquarsixth year and the U.S.
death toll in the conflict approaches Please see Iraq, Page A4 Casinos kaput, SO what's next? By STEVE LeBLANC gap. Associated Press Now, with the nation facing a possible recession and MasBOSTON -OK, now what? sachusetts still lagging much That's the question dogging of the country in job growth, lawmakers as they search for the drive for new dollars is new revenues after the col- taking on a new urgency. lapse last week of Gov. Deval A frustrated Patrick said it's Patrick's plan to license three up to House Speaker Salvaresort style casinos in Massa- tore DiMasi and his leadership chusetts. team to pave a way out of the Patrick's bill promised an fiscal crunch.
Patrick said leginjection of hundreds of mil- islative leaders have rejected lions of new dollars into the four of his revenue raising state's coffers at a time when proposals, including the casiMassachusetts is struggling with a $1.3 billion spending Please see Budget, Page A6 Staff photo by MICHAEL S. GORDON Kenneth R. Carter, a professor of polymer science at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, works with a nanotechnology imprint lithography tool Friday in the Silvio O. Conte National Center for Polymer Research at on conflicts the end of Easter Sunyesterday at the Vatican, XVI said that on the Easter, "in particular, to remember certain such as Darfur and tormented Middle East, Holy Land, Iraq, LebaTibet, all of which I ensolutions that will and the common singled out the Middle among places most in and denounced "selfishhatred and. violence" and peoples.
B6 to Monarchs Falcons can be anything these days, it's nightmare of a three-game Still the Falcons find of playoff position (the least), after dropping a Manchester Monarchs 5,359 at the Verizon Springfield sits in Atlantic Division, and by a point, after all three games since Page Ci EASTER TEARS And it is on the scale of a billionth of a meter that nanotechnologists are working. How many nanometers wide is the head of a pin? Roughly a million. Using a growing array of tools to manipulate the basic building blocks of matter at this scale, atoms and molecules, scientists can create new materials with exotic properties, such as super slipperiness or the ability to conduct electricity more efficiently than conventional conductors. In essence, the science is a new approach to building things, starting at the atomic level and working up from there. Since 1997, the University of Massachusetts has won nearly $74 million in grants and awards for nanotechnology research.
boat sinks crew members died yesterday was missing after a Seatfishing boat sank i in high Alaska's Aleutian Islands, the Guard said. The dead were crew members who abanafter the 184-foot Alaska developed problems. Fortymembers were recovered a search was continuing for person, said Chief Petty Barry Lane. Page A3 help sought leaders asked Vice PresCheney yesterday to presIsrael to halt settlement and voiced other comdeflated Cheney's hopeful Mideast peace. Palestinilittle expectation their meetCheney, a strong defender of state, would produce anyconcrete.
While that was the Bush administration did get chance to nudge the two sides agreement before President office in January. Page A6 44 We've been able to see things at the nanometer scale for a lot longer than we've been able to manipulate things' at that 19 Prof. Robert M. Weis, UMass "We've been able to see things at the nanometer scale for a lot longer than we've been able to manipulate things at that scale," said Robert M. Weis, a professor of chemistry at UMass and a faculty Please see Nano, Page A4 NEWS TO In Pope a speech speaks at day Mass GO how Pope joyous can day we Benedict of fail African regions, A QUICK RUN THROUGH SOME Somalia, the OF TODAY'S TOP STORIES especially the non and finally courage to seek safeguard peace College earmarks swell East good." and Benedict Tibet Congress set aside a record $2.3 bil- need of peace ness, injustice, lion in pet projects for colleges and between individuals universities last year for research on Full story, Page subjects like berries and reducing odors from swine and poultry, accord- of Falcons lose ing to an analysis by The Chronicle Higher Education to be published to- If the Springfield day.
Congress approved 2,306 ear- grateful for marks last year for higher education, that their compared with 223 in 1990, The weekend themselves is over. 'Chronicle said. The earmarks included out several centers honoring legislators. time being, at 4-2 count to the While such pork-barrel projects range yesterday, before far beyond academia, they are particu- Wireless Arena. larly controversial in higher education fifth place in the because they bypass the normal route trails the Monarchs for financing peer-reviewed scientific having dropped research.
Full story, Page B5 Friday. Full story, 1 Are you ready? Available this month via the Web site www.dicmar.com, a parent offers tips on sending a child to college. The guide provides checklists, warnings and tips on health insurance, budgeting, packing for dorm life and the other twists of college. See stories, Page E1.
