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A few states already have a head start. California, whose 11.2% March unemployment rate is the state's highest since 1941, is rushing to funnel $415 million in federal stimulus money to 49 job-retraining centers. Most of the training will be designed to qualify people for jobs in infrastructure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tuition Help for the Unemployed Gains Traction | 4/21/2009 | See Source »

Although Harvard has decided to slow down its plans for Allston, the university continues to buy property there, even when Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences reports that it must cut jobs and reshape programs in order to compensate for endowment losses. While Harvard demarcates a certain...

Author: By Megan A. Shutzer | Title: Let Them Eat Cake | 4/20/2009 | See Source »

The cost of construction is a part of the FAS budget, and thus the four omnipresent cranes that tower over the new Allston science complex will remain idle for the indefinite future. They are behemoths hanging over residents and a constant reminder of the project there, which, for residents like...

Author: By Megan A. Shutzer | Title: Let Them Eat Cake | 4/20/2009 | See Source »

Though the government plans to release 37,000 new niches by 2012, that supply will only meet the demand of a single year's cremations. By 2016, there will be no space in public or private columbaria for the remains of up to half of the people who die each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Hong Kong, Even the Dead Wait in Line | 4/20/2009 | See Source »

Compared to the interstate highway system and the massive network of domestic airlines, high-speed rail is more energy-efficient and less costly per mile and provides an easy, efficient, and safe method of transportation. As such, we believe that a new national program of high-speed rail construction will...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Working on the Railroad | 4/18/2009 | See Source »

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