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Harvard’s expansion into Riverside—a large district between Mass. Ave. and the Charles River, upstream from the River Street Bridge—has been contentious at least since the 1970 construction of Mather House and Peabody Terrace. The University’s current plans, which call for a six-story building on what was recently a parking lot across from Mather, result from a 2003 compromise between Harvard and the city...
...same conclusion, reversing the trend that created thousands of middle schools in the 1970s and '80s. Cincinnati and Cleveland, Ohio; Minneapolis, Minn.; Philadelphia; Memphis, Tenn.; and Baltimore, Md., are in various stages of reconfiguring their schools away from the middle school model and toward K-8s. Some suburban districts, including the wealthy Capistrano School District in Orange County, Calif., are also making the switch...
...Philadelphia, where reform has come from the top down. A 2002 study found that eighth-graders at the city's K-8 schools typically score 50 points higher on state tests than peers who attend middle schools. Under Paul Vallas, the energetic CEO of Philadelphia's schools, the district is pruning the number of middle schools from 46 in 2003 to eight by 2008, while upping K-8s from 10 to 120. "I haven't seen anything to support the creation of middle schools, especially the way they work in large urban areas," Vallas says...
After six years, Republicans gave up on trying to win liability protection for makers of MTBE, a gasoline additive that has contaminated groundwater in some areas. Plus a $1.5 billion research fund was added at the 11th hour to aid oil and gas companies in the Texas district of House majority leader Tom DeLay. --By Eric Roston and Melissa August
...ideological war now rages within the south's Muslim communities. Militants disseminate their radical creed through leaflets hand-scattered at night in villages or stuck to lamp-posts in towns and cities. One found recently outside a mosque in Pattani's Yarang district excoriates the NRC and "Siamese infidels" who corrupt young Muslims with drugs and money. It warns the "people of Pattani state" to reject all efforts of reconciliation by non-Muslims. "A dog is still a dog, even if it befriends a goat," it says. "People read the leaflets and then destroy them," says a Muslim aid worker...