Word: buildings
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...told Cambridge that it plans to build more undergraduate and graduate housing in Cambridge, especially because it has committed to housing all first-years on campus in dorms rather than fraternities...
Baror said he thinks Yale's policy of assigning students to residential colleges at the beginning of their first year helps build cohesion within those colleges...
...auction launch, Amazon continues its mutation from bookseller to e-tailer nonpareil. The auction area is carrying tens of thousands of items, including a signed copy of Hem-ingway's A Farewell to Arms--Amazon will, of course, be strong in rare books. "Our vision is to build a place to find and discover anything our customers might want to buy...[including] car parts and spark plugs," says Bezos, whose firm's ever inflating stock price jumped an additional 15% on the news. Says Larry Schwartz, president of rival Auction Universe: "It's kind of frightening--they cloned eBay...
...sprawl [NATION, March 22]. Important as these are, none will stop the sprawl steamroller without another essential element--reform of the property tax. This tax inflates land prices and spurs nonuse and abuse of city sites, driving development out into forests and fields. It raises your taxes when you build and maintain homes or stores but lowers them if you let properties decay. These pocketbook incentives for destroying communities are a prime cause of the out-migration that fuels sprawls. WALTER RYBECK Kensington...
...missile launch, their team here can flash the word home over a hot line that it's a false alarm before someone over there hits the attack buttons. The Russians, especially in light of Kosovo, have been cool to the proposal, but NORAD intends to go ahead and build the facility, which could be shared with other countries. "If they get interested months from now, we want to be ready," explains Navy Commander DAVID B. KNOX. "It's important enough that both sides are talking to each other to prevent any misunderstanding...