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Though only a limited number of Russians have dachas of their own, hundreds of thousands have access to some kind of rural retreat. "Every summer Friday afternoon half of Moscow seems to leave the city," reports TIME'S John Shaw. "Even a quarter-acre of Mother Russia's...
A Russian family can rent a two-bedroom dacha for the equivalent of about $100 a month. Holiday accommodation is also available through dacha cooperatives, run by most government ministries and academic institutions for their more senior employees. A member pays a token lease for a bit of rural land...
Not only that, but even excluding temporary residents such as students, Cambridge is still the tenth most densely populated city on the country The city's 20,000 persons per square mile--64.6 persons per acre--have made such problems as housing and crime especially difficult in an area that...
Contours of the Kennedy Center are somewhat more cloudy. About two acres of the 11-acre site will be given to Harvard for the Kennedy School of Government. A large plaza, called Commonwealth Plaza in appreciation of Massachusetts' grant of the MBTA land, will extend over much of the area...
About eight blocks from the Square, near William James Hall, an even taller building appears imminent. Harvard recently announced plans to build a 22-story tower and six four-story townhouses, for University affiliated families, on a wooded five-acre site known as the "Shady Hill Estate." Opposition to the...