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...nonprofit environmental organization will move its headquarters to Harvard property in Allston this April, marking the University’s first succesful letting of a vacant property in the neighborhood since the December announcement of the halt of construction on the Allston Science Complex...
...World beat out Old World wines. But the Franco-Swiss is a reminder that Napa Valley has been holding its own since the end of the 19th century, when American wineries regularly won awards at expositions and fairs from Paris to St. Louis. That momentum, however, screeched to a halt with Prohibition; and the Franco-Swiss faded into the weed-infested, crumbling edifice visitors find today. (From TIME's Archive: America's wine comes...
...anti-mining activists cannot stop coal extraction altogether, they are hoping to appeal to the EPA to at least regulate it through the Clean Water Protection Act, which is currently sitting in the House. The bill would close a loophole in the Clean Water Act of 1972 and halt the burying of streams with coal debris, which would block further contamination. The EPA does not have the authority to regulate mountaintop mining, but it is responsible for preventing the practice from affecting water quality, said EPA administrator Lisa Jackson at the National Press Club in Washington. The EPA will...
...population growth and there is some evidence that they have.” He suggests that this phenomenon “may begin to crack the culture of martyrdom, which demands a constant supply of superfluous young men.” Mr. Kramer’s public call to halt food, medicine, and humanitarian aid—which he calls “pro-natal subsidies”—would read as a cruel joke if it did not so egregiously violate the most basic norms of human decency. Such statements have been echoed by people in power...
Greece ground to a halt as workers went on a 24-hour nationwide strike and tens of thousands of people took to the streets to protest civil-service pay cuts and higher taxes in the biggest and angriest demonstrations so far against the austerity measures. Although most of the protesters were peaceful - and even included in their ranks uniformed police officers and firefighters - groups of masked and hooded youths waged running street battles with riot police, smashing the windows of banks and luxury stores and hurling rocks and Molotov cocktails. The police responded by covering central Athens with a haze...