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...proposed development in two different Riverside sites comes almost a year after Harvard signed a landmark agreement with the city, under which the University can construct new buildings in Riverside in return for providing a public park and affordable housing units for the community on its property...
According to the designs, Harvard will construct new graduate student housing on Cowperthwaite Street across from Dunster and Mather Houses. The building will range in height from 45 to 55 feet and replace the existing parking lot. The path next to Leverett House will remain a pedestrian walkway. The University will also build six new houses along Grant and Banks Streets, each two-to-three stories tall...
...Politics of H2O Your report "Unnatural Disaster" described the record floods and droughts that are devastating South Asia [Aug. 9]. India, after earning independence, did wonderfully well by constructing major reservoirs for irrigation and became self-sufficient in food grains. But then both the state and central governments neglected irrigation and construction of reservoirs, allowing 50% of river-water resources to go to waste in the sea. India's politicians have a habit of ignoring expert advice if it does not suit their selfish interests. In view of the diminishing rainfall, India needs to construct more reservoirs and transfer surplus...
Compassion? There's nothing less compassionate than to construct a political constituency of sufferers (and their loved ones) by falsely and cruelly intimating that their disease is on the very cusp of cure if only the President would stop playing politics with the issue. Why, after all, was Reagan addressing the nation on a subject of which he knows nothing? Because his famous father died of Alzheimer's, and some (including, sadly, Nancy Reagan) have been led to believe that Alzheimer's is curable using stem cells. This is nonsense. Cynical nonsense. Or as Ronald D.G. McKay, a stem-cell...
Those who think of these elaborate pool designs as worthy investments should reconsider. Real estate experts say even the splashiest new pools boost an average home's value by less than 10%. Still, most people who construct waterfalls and poolside theaters are speculating on their dreams, not their finances. It's fine with them if the costs are sunk...