Word: center
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When it's all over, the sidewalks in both the Brattle Square area and on Massachusetts Avenue will be expanded to almost twice their normal size--providing more room for the street musicians as well as pedestrians. The plan is to push all the traffic lanes into the center, thus widening out space along the street In addition. changes will be noted at the regular kiosk stop. The architects, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, have come up with a snazzy-looking station that overall resembles the fifth floor of Macy's on a slow day. The old entrance at the kiosk...
...exceed that given Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev on his last visit to Bucharest. After an open-air limousine ride into the capital amid crowds estimated between 250,000 and 500,000, Hua held private conversations with Ceauşescu, and was expected to visit the oil center of Ploesti, the Black Sea port of Constanta, and the Danube River port of Galati, which is within sneering distance of the Soviet border...
...sign of tension among Czechs lining up around street vendors to buy ice cream or to window-shop during their brief lunch hour. The large number of uniformed police could be accounted for -nominally at least-by a complicated new system of traffic flow in the city center. On the surface, the primary concern of most of Prague's citizens today seems to be their regular weekend escape to a country chata (cottage). The only apprehensive people around town seem to be the leaders of the regime itself...
Last week, after investigating a recent outbreak in Bloomington, Ind., which killed three people, Atlanta's Center for Disease Control announced a partial solution of that puzzle. The organism, or one closely resembling it, was found in water from an air conditioning cooling tower atop the Indiana University Memorial Union Hotel, where many of the victims had stayed, as well as in a nearby creek. The key to the discovery: two new culture media specifically designed to foster laboratory growth of the bug, which ordinarily multiplies so slowly that it is obscured by other bacteria...
Rambunctious students in a computer-age kindergarten? Well, sort of. The students, named Sherman and Austin, are chimpanzees, enrolled in an extraordinary class at the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center in Atlanta. Despite their occasional unruly conduct, they are being successfully taught to "talk" to each other in a language other than their own usual mix of sounds and gestures. That may be a scientific first, say their instructors, who are led by a husband-wife team of psychologists, Yerkes' Sue Savage-Rumbaugh and Georgia State University's Duane Rumbaugh...