MIT Crime Club and the Sensodyne Defense
When [Sen.] Gallucio … violated his probation by failing a breathalyzer test, he blamed his toothpaste.…
According to the Cambridge Chronicle, MIT alumnus and Crime Club [advisor] James Herms holds five patents related to Sensodyne toothpaste and should know what’s in it. He claims that sorbitol, the type of alcohol that Gallucio claimed accounts for the supposedly false result, would not alter the results of a blood alcohol test….
Herms also had good advice for people with sensitive teeth: “What’s more important than the toothpaste is the toothbrush.”
—Posting of Rick Sawyer, Ed., to Bostonist (Jan. 4, 2010, 10:20 EST).Resolution List for City Council Meeting of Monday, March 24, 2003
10. Thanking James K. Herms for his dedication to the City and Citizens of the City of Cambridge.
Mayor Sullivan and entire membership
10. ORDER ADOPTED.
— Cambridge, Mass., City Council Res. 10 (Mar. 24, 2003). Res. List for City Council Meeting of Mon., Mar. 24, 2003, 2002–2003 City Council 1.
More Gardens! More Peas!
More Gardens Coalition, Victory Celebration, Jardin del Paradiso, New York (June 20, 1999).
History
Following on a visit by More Gardens! members with the attorney general [Spitzer] in Albany, his office filed a suit to secure the preliminary injunction that stopped the auction [of 114 community gardens] on May 5, 1999.
— History of More Gardens Coalition, http://www.moregardens.
org/node/141/ (June 1999).
Special Listings: Not-To-Be-Missed Gardens. Lower East Side Community Gardens
Many of the gardens on the Lower East Side have been given permanent status under the parks department…. Recently … more than 100 gardens have been saved from destruction.
— Nancy Berner & Susan Lowry, Garden Guide: New York City 191–92 (2002).
