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...empty industrial facilities and the Brighton Mills Shopping Center—perhaps by building small-scale housing and parks. And Anne C. Lusk, a postdoctoral research fellow at the School of Public Health and a Brookline resident, said that Harvard and the city should take advantage of the economic downturn to focus on other aspects of Harvard’s development plans—such as reducing automobile usage and facilitating bicycle transportation...
...think especially with the downturn in the economy, we need hope, some forward movement in creative ways,” Lusk said, suggesting that University and city planners look at constructing European-style, barrier-separated, bicycle tracks with a parallel sidewalk in Allston. She noted that because Boston is sorely lacking in bike lanes and cycle tracks, such a development strategy would make Allston a model for alternative transportation...
...presence on campus last night at their second Coordinating Council meeting of the semester. The meeting, designated “Priorities of the Community,” was an open discussion in which Hillel members voiced their concerns regarding their organization’s response to the current financial downturn. Last night’s meeting was inspired in part by an e-mail sent by Hillel member Peter N. Ganong ’09 over the Hillel undergraduate mailing list in late February. “Hillel is in a budget crisis,” wrote Ganong...
Details on the move have come slowly since the University, shifting its plans in response to a financial downturn, first announced that several MCB professors would be relocated to make room for stem cell researchers previously bound for Harvard’s expanded campus in Allston...
...amount given that Guzman's estimated net worth is $1 billion, putting him at #701 on the Forbes list, between a Swiss oil tycoon and an American heir to the Campbell Soup fortune. And unlike many of his fellow billionaires who've already lost untold fortunes to the global downturn, Guzman's empire likely made even more money in 2008 - a banner year for cocaine trafficking. (See pictures of the U.S.-Mexico border fence...