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Construction is scheduled to begin this spring for an Allston science complex—an 589,000 square-foot project expected to cost nearly $1 billion. But before the University can break ground on its first project across the river, it must first sign a legally binding cooperation agreement that includes a plan for how benefits will be distributed to the community...
...first project, a 589,000-square-foot science complex set for completion in 2011, will house Harvard’s Stem Cell Institute, the Institute of Bio-Inspired Engineering, the Initiative in Systems Biology, the Chemical Biology program, and the Initiative in Innovative Computing. Allston will also serve as a new home for the School of Public Health, which is currently housed in dozens of disconnected and aging facilities...
...WHILE TREATING impoverished rural amputees in Jaipur, India, orthopedic surgeon P.K. Sethi and local craftsman Ram Chandra devised something revolutionary: an affordable prosthetic foot made of flexible materials that offered mobility for villagers accustomed to walking barefoot and sitting on the floor. First used broadly for land-mine victims in Afghanistan after the 1979 Soviet invasion, the $30 Jaipur foot has aided millions of patients in more than 25 developing or war-torn countries. Sethi...
Retrofitting a single plane with the laser technology could cost up to $1 million (there are 6,800 U.S. jets), plus added fuel costs. Still undecided: whether the Federal Government or the airlines would foot the bill...
...Greek army trapped behind enemy lines, deep in the heart of the Persian Empire. Yet one of the stars of the show was Xenophon himself, his book a subtle piece of self-promotion. Likewise, Burrow makes a welcome exception for a memoir by Bernal Díaz, a humble foot soldier who arrived in Mexico with Cortés in 1519 and took part in toppling the Aztecs. Díaz looks back on those days in The Conquest of New Spain, a first-person account written as an old man living on a modest farm in Guatemala...