<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Massachusetts</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/states/ma?nav=rss_nation/states/ma</link><description>Massachusetts</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Women who brave volcanoes, help gorillas and study the seas.By Karen MacPherson]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41351-2005May6.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ma</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41351-2005May6.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ma</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:05:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Harvard University President Lawrence Summers incited an ideological riot earlier this year when he suggested that women may be innately unsuited for success in math and science. But Summers's remarks, for which he subsequently apologized,  are a moot point to women like Donna O'Meara and Felicia Nutter. Their talents and interests led both women into careers in science: O'Meara as a globe-trotting volcano researcher and Nutter as a field veterinarian in Rwanda for a research project on mountain gorillas.]]></description><author> Karen MacPherson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Procedure On Women In Labor Adds Risk]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35515-2005May4.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ma</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35515-2005May4.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ma</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:05:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ One of the most common surgical procedures performed in the United States  --  an incision many pregnant women receive to reduce the risk of tissue tears during delivery  --  has no benefits and actually causes more complications, according to the most comprehensive analysis to evaluate the practice.]]></description><author> Rob Stein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Memo Offers View Of Mfume's NAACP]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27060-2005Apr30.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ma</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27060-2005Apr30.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ma</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:05:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The screaming match between Monica McCullough and Tiffany Hawthorne at the NAACP's national headquarters in Baltimore was getting out of hand when three co-workers tried to intervene.]]></description><author> Matthew Mosk  and Cheryl W. Thompson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Service Honors Life Of 7-Year-Old Boy]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16407-2005Apr26.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ma</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16407-2005Apr26.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ma</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:05:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Beneath a row of stained-glass windows lay fragments of a young boy's life, neatly arrayed. A plush lion. A soccer trophy. A school library book called "Tropical Storms and Hurricanes" that he had recently checked out to help his mother learn to read in English.]]></description><author> Tara Bahrampour</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[30 Years Later, Immigrants Shed Vietnam War's Burden]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12415-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ma</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12415-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ma</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:05:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Thirty is now the median age of the 1.2 million people of Vietnamese heritage living in the United States. Thirty is young enough to be haunted by Vietnam, old enough to have created new lives.]]></description><author> Phuong Ly</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Class Struggle]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7869-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ma</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7869-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ma</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:05:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   SARAH'S LONG WALK<br>  The Free Blacks of Boston and How Their Struggle for Equality Changed America]]></description><author>Reviewed  Alicia L. Young</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honoring a School-Bound Girl]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10770-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ma</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10770-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ma</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:05:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Mourners were still filtering into the church half an hour after yesterday's funeral mass for Lilibeth Gomez began. By then, ushers had run out of white candles tied with pink ribbons and programs printed with a photo of the beaming 9-year-old, and the Northwest Washington church was standing room only.]]></description><author> Karin Brulliard</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[2nd Child Dies After Bus Crash in N.Va.]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6263-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ma</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6263-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ma</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:05:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Monday's school bus crash in Arlington claimed its second life Wednesday night, a 7-year-old boy who died after being gravely injured in the collision with a trash hauler, authorities said.]]></description><author> Leef Smith  and Allan Lengel</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Bus Stop, Holding On a Bit Tighter]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2458-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ma</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2458-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ma</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:05:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Before Gisela Zuniga shepherded her 4-year-old daughter, Noelia, onto a bus heading to Arlington County's Hoffman-Boston Elementary School yesterday morning, she planted a kiss on the little girl's cheek and patted her shoulder.]]></description><author> Tara Bahrampour</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Married D.C. Gay Couples Can File Jointly]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2461-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ma</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2461-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ma</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:05:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The unexpected move places new pressure on Mayor Anthony A. Williams to decide whether gay unions will be recognized in Washington.]]></description><author> Spencer S. Hsu and Lori Montgomery</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[D.C. Math Educator Named Nation's Best]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63971-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ma</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63971-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ma</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:05:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Jason Kamras, of the District's Sousa Middle School has been named the National Teacher of the Year, the first time in the contest's 53-year history that a D.C. educator has won.]]></description><author> V. Dion Haynes</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frist to Participate in Anti-Filibuster Telecast]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57534-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ma</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57534-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ma</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:05:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's decision to appear in a national telecast with prominent Christian conservatives  --  who are calling for new Senate rules to seat federal judges and are assailing "the liberal, anti-Christian dogma of the left"  --  drew fire yesterday from Democratic leaders.]]></description><author> Charles Babington</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man Charged in Mass.  Woman's Death]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56673-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ma</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56673-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ma</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:05:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[After more than three years of frustration, false leads and a controversial dragnet for DNA evidence, prosecutors announced Friday that police have arrested a suspect in the slaying of fashion writer Christa Worthington on Cape Cod.]]></description><author> Jonathan Finer</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Man in the Ivory Tower]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54826-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ma</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54826-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ma</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:05:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A silver-haired woman, sitting in the gleaming glass lobby of a Harvard University science building, notes the arrival of university President Lawrence Summers. "That <em>car</em>," she says, and then rolls her eyes.]]></description><author> Philip Kennicott</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Atlantic Monthly to Move Down the Coast to D.C.]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54880-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ma</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54880-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ma</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:05:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It has been nearly 150 years since the Atlantic Monthly magazine was born, its first offices located in Boston's Old Corner Bookstore. Now the publication founded by Emerson and Longfellow is being moved to Washington.]]></description><author> Marcia Davis</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Widened Veterans' Benefits Supported]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51388-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ma</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51388-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ma</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:05:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Senate expanded veterans benefits Wednesday as part of an emergency war spending bill, although a battle over unrelated immigration issues is threatening to delay final passage of the legislation for days.]]></description><author> Shailagh Murray</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Web Censors in China Find Success]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51712-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ma</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51712-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ma</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:05:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Chinese government is succeeding in broadly censoring what its citizens can read on the Internet, surprising many experts and denting U.S. government hopes that online access would be a quick catalyst for democratic political reform.<FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Jonathan Krim</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conn. Backs Civil Unions for Same-Sex Couples]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51518-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ma</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51518-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ma</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:05:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Connecticut's House of Representatives passed legislation Wednesday that would make the state the second to establish civil unions for same-sex couples, and the first to do so without being directed by a court.]]></description><author> Jonathan Finer</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cuban Tied to Terror Case Seeks U.S. Asylum]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47870-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ma</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47870-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ma</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:05:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[CIA-trained exile's case prompts at least one congressman to assert that granting the request would undermine the nation's credibility in the war on terrorism.]]></description><author> Michael A. Fletcher</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small Protest Precedes Mass by U.S. Cardinal]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45365-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ma</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45365-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_nation/states/ma</guid><pubDate>Sun, 8 May 2005 23:05:35 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  VATICAN CITY, April 11  --  Cardinal Bernard F. Law presided over a Mass in mourning for Pope John Paul II on Monday, a few hours after Italian police broke up a peaceful demonstration by two American victims of sex abuse who were protesting the Vatican's choice of Law for the honor.]]></description><author> Alan Cooperman</author></item></channel></rss>