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...into Allston.” But less glamorously, the plans also take heed of the intersection between visual pollution and the ecological sort, making use of techniques to hide less-than-aesthetically-pleasing infrastructure in order enhance the impact of the campus’ use of open space. Adam Gross, a design principal at Baltimore-based Ayers Saint Gross, one of the architecture firms that Harvard has hired, says that of the 45 different colleges campuses he has worked with around the country, Harvard has made the best effort to hide its utilities. “You?...
...revenues in a given year. A far bigger concern is the national debt - the total of what we've cumulatively borrowed to finance those yearly deficits. Sometime around 2020, according to projections offered by Walker's foundation, the U.S. debt will be equal to or greater than annual gross domestic product - a situation not seen since 1946 at the end of World War II. Worsening the picture is the fact that much of that debt is held by international lenders, chiefly China and Japan, who could grow wary of financing our spending and cut off funds, effectively leaving...
...make-believe is that the high school experience is wunnnnnderful - though this view is no less reductive than the one, in so many comedies and horror movies, that says high school is a Hades of sadistic cliques in constant turmoil. Where films in those genres go for the gross, the G-rated HSM is freakishly squeakishly clean. Nobody's going to say a bad word or poop in the soup. What Disneyland's Main Street is to suburban planning, this movie is to adolescence...
...Paul's Cathedral that is the heart of the old financial district, plus the gleaming towers of the new financial district in the docklands area--a powerful motor not just for London but also for British prosperity. In 2007 financial services accounted for 10.1% of the U.K.'s gross domestic product, up from 5.5% in 2001. Add in professional services linked to finance, such as accounting, law and management consulting, and the total rises to 14%. And that's for Britain as a whole. For London, finance has been even more important: it accounts for almost one-fifth...
...this farm may seem a little farfetched, but its something many universities around the country are doing right now,” said Adam Gross, a design principal at Baltimore-based Ayers Saint Gross, one of the architecture firms that Harvard has hired...