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...were days many environmentalists consider Salvucci's work anathema. They deride Salvucci's pet project, Scheme Z--a proposed highway exchange in East Cambridge to which Salvucci has devoted 20 years of his life, calling it "the ugliest structure in New England" and an "environmental nightmare...
Ironically, more than 20 years ago, Salvucci was considered the driving force behind the widespread community protest which beat another highway exchange--the Inner Belt--a proposed traffic loop that would have circled around Boston and hosing in Cambridge...
Primack's enthusiasm for Scheme Z doesn't just stop with the plan, though, it extends to its MIT-educated architect. "Within the spectrum of highway engineers, Fred Salvucci is one of the most creative and brilliant men in the United Sates," Primack says...
Even though the compelling reasons Cambridge has used to oppose previous highway projects do not apply to Scheme Z, Cambridge has a right to complain. The problem with Scheme Z goes beyone what it will bring to East Cambridge. The real problem is what it will keep away. If Scheme Z goes through, no matter how wonderful the effects will be for Boston, North Point in East Cambridge will be doomed to remain a transportation corridor forever...
...precision-guided" bombs and missiles are missing. Again, Schwarzkopf's estimate that the quantity of supplies reaching the Iraqi troops in Kuwait has dropped from 20,000 tons a day to a mere 2,000 assumes that damage on secondary roads has been as severe as on the main highway to Baghdad. Maybe, but no proof has been given. In general, however, there is no reason to doubt the picture of an awesome battering that eventually must seriously weaken Saddam's ability to withstand a ground attack...