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...according to Jillson, there is no longer a housing emergency in Cambridge--the vacancy rate is currently 6 percent, she says. In the SPOA report, figures indicate that the maximum rents landlords can collect--"fair net operating income"--do not cover the minimum costs of maintaining the property...
...going in to collect data with no preconceived ideas of good and bad," Sage said. "We need to approach this as a clean slate and say 'Let's take a look at what we need and don't need, and explore what's best for the city...
...shirt craze has been a jackpot for vendors, who collect $13 to $15 a garment. Some sellers have continued peddling the shirts, claiming a teenager who wears a gun shirt isn't likely to attract attention to himself by also toting a gun. Other vendors insist it is only a fad but have halted the supply in response to parental concern. "But T shirts don't kill people," says manufacturer Ben S. Ali, who has stopped selling the shirts. "People kill people...
...would be amazed at the kind of programs that some other schools can put together. Major universities in the Midwest host the likes of M.C. Hammer, Guns N' Roses, Bob Dylan and U2 on their campuses. They turn over their stadiums and concert spaces to agents and collect a percentage of the profits. It doesn't cost them anything except the maintenance of the facility--and students even profit by being able to work major shows...
...however, castles, like most other buildings in Europe, were made of timber, far from the granite bastions that litter today's imagined Middle Ages. The peasants, meanwhile, were relegated to their simple huts, where everyone -- including the animals -- slept around the hearth. Straw was scattered on the floors to collect scraps as well as human and animal waste. Housecleaning consisted of sweeping out the straw...