Word: connections
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...problems that construction poses to the community. They then presented their concerns to the Harvard officials. Residents were critical of Harvard’s intention to transform Rena Street, currently a dead end, into a large road called “Stadium Way” that would connect the area’s two major thoroughfares, Western Avenue and North Harvard Street. Near a “quiet [and] attractive,” residential area, “these projects would bring noise, air, and visual pollution to this special neighborhood,” claimed a flyer distributed...
Kennedy searches for titles that will connect to his students' own life experiences and plans to progress to the classics. He says the first book that grabbed him was Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, and he looks forward to reading it with his students. In the meantime, Kennedy has started book clubs for parents and Saturday field trips to colleges, museums, movies and Broadway shows. He's trying to find a way to send students studying Spanish to Spain, and he runs a weekly group for about 25 kids who are having trouble in school...
...love to trot out to prove to students that a two-dimensional figure can have only one side. Indeed, the simplest chords, which consist of just two notes, live on an actual Mbius strip. Three-note chords reside in spaces that look like prisms--except that opposing faces connect to each other. And more complex chords inhabit spaces that are as hard to visualize as the multidimensional universes of string theory...
...kind of Islamism does exist in Minneapolis: some Somalis demonstrated there recently in support of the brief Islamist takeover of their homeland. But Rasheed Garaad, 29, whom I talked to as he waited to join a terminal cab line, didn't connect his pickup policy with a desire to change this country...
Seated in a nondescript office in Hong Kong, 1,500 workers areturning the wheels of the global economy. Without leaving their desks, these merchandisers at Hong Kong--based trading outfit Li & Fung connect the far-flung dots of today's international manufacturing system. They make sure that Victoria's Secret gets its bras, American Eagle Outfitters its T shirts and Disney its stuffed Winnie the Poohs. One moment, workers in Hong Kong are haggling with fabricmakers for the best price of denim, and the next, they're ensuring that a shipment of teddy bears gets to U.S. stores...