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Boston mass transit authorities flap around for solution to pigeon menace

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Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority are now considering setting trained falcons on the urban birds The mass transit authorities in the greater Boston region are clawing around for ways to mitigate the excessive local pigeon population – or more graphically, pigeon poo all over stations – and have swooped on the possibility of setting trained falcons on them. The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), the public system commonly known as “the T”, issued a “ request for information ” (RFI) last month from falconry experts on the…

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How Trump changed the way US women vote

A decade after his infamous Access Hollywood tape, the gender divide is again shaping a pivotal midterm election A decade ago, Donald Trump’s improbable presidential campaign was rocked – and nearly derailed – by the now-infamous Access Hollywood tape, a 2005 recording in which the real estate developer turned reality TV star boasted about kissing and grabbing women without their consent. “When you’re a star, they let you do it,” he said, a remark he later downplayed as “ locker-room talk ” before musing that the tape might be fake . ( It wasn’t .) ‘Of…