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...neighborhoods, Chinatown has shown the least improvement. The garment industry there never fully recovered, existing zoning laws inhibit residential development, and the area is struggling to make the most of the hundreds of small businesses that dominate the area. But Chinatown has a new leader for its business district: Wellington Chen, who promises to boost tourism and marketing and clean up the streets...
...living downtown for two years, as well as one-time payments of up to $1,000 for existing residents who stayed put. The sweeteners brought in new residents, who revitalized big apartment complexes like Battery Park City and pushed developers to convert old office buildings in the financial district into apartments, a trend already under way before 9/11. More than 36,000 people now live in lower Manhattan, up 58% from 2000. Those young, affluent newcomers have attracted posh new stores like Sephora and Hermčs and new restaurants like Bobby Van's Steakhouse, lighting up streets that once went...
...from those institutions discovered a method of treating diseases by regulating the activity of a molecule called NF-kB—a transcription factor involved in protein production. When the discovery was eventually awarded a patent in 2002, Ariad and the three institutions sued Eli Lilly in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Evista helps prevent and treat osteoperosis and Xigris treats people with severe sepsis. Royalties from that patent could be a windfall for Cambridge-based Ariad, which took a net operating loss of $55 million in 2005. The company’s stock surged...
...itself seems very much to be self-made. Because Harvard qualifies them as a club sport instead of a varsity sport, their funds from the College are quite limited. Chang says that they “make their own costumes, sewn together with appliqués from the Garment District.” “There’s a dance aspect, and there’s a small business aspect,” Laskowska says.“Sweatshop element,” Chang interjects, giggling. Pringle recalls an incident at nationals, at which dancers from New York...
...survey, conducted by RKM Research and Communications, consisted of phone interviews with 404 Cambridge parents whose children are already in kindergarten at a Cambridge public school or are applying for enrollment. According to the study, 59 percent of parents would enroll their children in a Montessori program if the district implemented one. The proposal to create a Montessori program at Tobin was originally brought before the committee almost two months ago as a way to curb declining enrollment at the school. But committee members expressed concern that RKM’s question choice—one asked parents if they...