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...That's an unusual attitude in today's China. The nation is in the throes of the fastest urban growth in human history. In recent years the country has built an average of 2 billion sq m of floor space annually?half the world's yearly total?and plans to add another 20-30 billion by 2020. In theory, this should offer limitless opportunities for innovative urban planning. But as China's cities have grown larger, they have only become more uniform, so that each now seems to boast a skyscraping government office, roads scaled like highways and a vast...
...Iran-Contra scandal under Reagan, but received a presidential pardon from President George H. W. Bush before his trial began.Born Aug. 18, 1917, in San Francisco, Weinberger arrived in Harvard Yard in the fall of 1934.Morris E. Lasker ’38, who lived on the third floor of Matthews Hall with Weinberger in their freshman year, said that it was clear even in Weinberger’s college days that the future defense secretary was clearly “very bright” and “very capable.” “He was highly intelligent...
Does that mean that a name is necessary? Couldn’t readers adequately monitor arrest patterns if we had just said, for instance, that campus police charged a white male 20-year-old sophomore economics concentrator from Orem, Utah who lives in a fourth-floor Old Quincy dorm? Well, yes—provided that there were no key details that we omitted. Might it be relevant that, as a recent op-ed in The Crimson noted, the Quincy student was involved in the Harvard College Libertarian Forum, a group whose members have advocated the decriminalization of drugs...
...Friday night, 20 undergraduates from a Habitat for Humanity trip danced cha-cha on the dark floor of a club called Cafe Brasil. Some sipped out of plastic cups, listening to a man singing on stage. The act was Fredy Omar con su Banda, an eight-member crew with one main vocalist—Fredy Omar himself...
...waves within five minutes. "You'd feel that kind of an earthquake on land," Nicolini says. "If you do, start running to higher ground" - at least 40 feet above sea level. For residents of low-lying places, says Nicolini, "vertical evacuation" - climbing a tree or going to the top floor of a sturdy-looking building - may be the best they can do with just five minutes' warning...