Word: constructionism
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Energy and cost-saving measures are at the heart of Harvard’s new Green Building Guidelines, which govern the construction of buildings costing over $5 million to insure they meet a set of sustainability benchmarks. Harvard now has 20 building projects certified by the U.S. Green Building Council?...
The report's release coincides with a deadlock in the Obama Administration's efforts to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. U.S. Special Envoy George Mitchell is currently in Israel, struggling to bridge the gap between the Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' insistence that he won't talk to the Israelis...
And most people in the Czech Republic agree with him. Repeated polls have found that more than 60% of the country opposes the construction of radar facilities within its borders. Many feared that the U.S. missile-defense system would destabilize security by provoking Russia, which has long been against the...
Yet planning for what would seem to be a mutually beneficial arrangement has dragged on to its sixth year, and many Charlesview dwellers are saying that their patience has been tested enough and that construction should commence.
"The two races that are most discriminated against here are the blacks and the indigenous - but it is more accepted against blacks," says Hemeregildo Fernandez, a doctor in Yanga and one of the few blacks still living in town. His office is tucked on a narrow street that juts off...