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Kennedy II, sensitive to the negative publicity he and his family have received, announced Thursday that he has decided not to run for governor next year. Kennedy, whose approval ratings have plum meted this year, said he feared his candidacy would end up highlighting recent scandals within his family, such as his brother’s alleged relationship with a teen-age baby sitter, rather than weighty is sues such as health care, jobs and education. “In recent weeks, I’ve come to the conclusion, reluctantly, that if I am a candidate for governor next year, the focus will not be on those issues,” he said at a news conference. “The race will fo cus on personal and family questions. It’s not fair to my family. It’s not fair to the people of Massa chusetts, and it’s not the right thing to do.” Although Kennedy, 44, never formally declared his candidacy, he often said he planned to run. Kennedy also said Thursday he planned to run again next year for Congress, an office he first won in 1986. He represents the 8th District, which covers much of Boston and Cambridge and is the same seat held by his uncle, the late President John F. Kennedy. Kennedy, the eldest son of the late Robert F. Kennedy, had been viewed as a heavy favorite in the governor’s race as recently as a year ago. The Kennedy family has gone 18-for-18 in gen eral elections in Massachusetts over the past 50 years, and Kennedy was re-elected last year with only token opposition. Throughout 1997, however, his public stand ing has been undercut by negative publicity. First, his ex- wife, Sheila Rauch Kennedy, pub lished a book ac cusing him of try ing to bully her into granting him an annulment of their marriage. His brother Michael then was investi gated for allegedly having sex with his family’s teen-age jit awiiiiiim baby sitter. More recently, Joe Kennedy and one of his 16-year-old twin sons were lighting fireworks on July 4 when the boy was accidentally burned. Fireworks are illegal in Massachusetts. Just as that news was dying down, his cousin John F. Kennedy Jr. said Joe and Michael Kennedy had become “poster boys for bad behavior.” The congressman, flanked by his campaign supporters and staff, said Thursday that his cousin’s article in George magazine was “very, very much misunderstood.” But, he said, “You have to be realistic about “It’s not fair to my family. It’s not fair to the people of Massachusetts, and it’s not the right thing to do.” JOSEPH KENNEDY II the fact that people are very angqatw of my family and me in particular, and I an responsibility for that.” “I don’t think Joe Kennedy rel thought of being the first member of Camel lose a battle in Massachusetts,” said politic alyst Kevin Sowyrda. Just this past weekend, Joe Kennedyk stroke of bad luck, injuring an ankle inafj football game on Cape Cod thatsoughu capture the atmosphere of happier days his uncle was president. Kennedy apologized for both his aai brother’s conduct at a state DemocraticPai sues convention in June. In several met with reporters afterward he insisted hen still run for governor next year. He had about $1.8 million in his federal paign account, much of which he figuredi be used in a state race. Earlier this monthh opened a state campaign committeeandln campaign manager. As recently as January, Kennedywasm favorably by 60 percent of those surveys poll released by The Boston Globe andlil In another Globe/WBZ-TV released k Kennedy was viewed favorably by 34 pern 400 people surveyed, while45 percentrad unfavorably. The polls had a margin of error ofplii! nus 5 percentage points. Study: Little Ice Age may slow global warm WASHINGTON (AP) — Linger ing effects of a frosty 500 years called the Little Ice Age may be helping to slow global warming, ac cording to a new study. Researchers at the University of New Hampshire said cold winds roaring over the North and South poles are almost the same now as they were during the period of glob al chill that started in 1400 and ap parently ended at the beginning of this century. “This shows we are still feeling the effects of the Little Ice Age,” said Karl J. Kxeutz of the Climate Change Research Center at the University of New Hampshire. “This could be modifying the temperatures caused by the greenhouse effect, although we can’t be certain of that.” Another scientist said the re search adds important new under standing about the Little Ice Age and raises the possibility that the warming effects of greenhouse gas es may be worse than now believed. A report on the study will be published Friday in Science, the journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. During the Little Ice Age, global temperatures are thought to have dropped by 2 to 3 degrees F, enough to make winters longer and harder and summers cooler throughout countries in the Northern Hemi sphere where most weather records were then kept. In the 15th and 16th centuries, glaciers that had been receding started marching down mountains and, in some cases, casting in creased numbers of icebergs into the sea. The timberline retreated down mountainsides, away from the chilled peaks. Some agriculture areas were abandoned to the creep ing cold. Vikings who had home steaded in Greenland gave up their settlements, never to return. Kreutz said new cores drilled from permanent ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica show the Earth has yet to fully recover from the Little Ice Age. Kreutz said layers of ice cored from more than 500 feet below the surface clearly show that wind pat terns suddenly changed at the be ginning of the Little Ice Age. Gales started blowing in from the ocean dropped concentrations of sea salt — a compound of sodium, chlo rine, magnesium and potassium — onto the surface of ice sheets near the poles. The chemicals became a part of the seasonal ice layers. The sea salt, in effect, left a fin gerprint of wind patterns: The stronger and more frequent the winds, the greater the amount of sea salt. Thus, by measm concentration of sea salt, searchers can determinedit:i sityof the winds. New ice cores show that to patterns established at tliebea of the Little Ice Age are the sai the patterns of today, said Kra "We’re seeing the same tj winds blowing into the polaii that occurred during the Litti Age,” said Kreutz. "That d some of the effects from thatpi are still happening." “This is pretty important 1 1 because it shows that theLittiB Age was a global effect,” said I D. Keigwin of the Woods Oceanographic InstitutetnM< chusetts. 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