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...That's because the land is actually owned by developer Ralph Horowitz. The city invoked eminent domain laws to take the land from him in 1986 to build an incinerator. Unfortunately, the city forgot to ask South Central if they wanted an incinerator. They did not. So Horowitz fought city hall, which, while not impossible, does take a long time. Meanwhile, after the 1992 riots in South Central, the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank, whose offices are adjacent to the land, decided to temporarily use it as a community garden. Then, in 2003, Horowitz won his land back. Last month...
...diesel fueled truck parked outside) battling on several fronts. Since most of the farmers are Latinos who don't actually live right near the farm, and because the largely African-American neighborhood is the only area in Los Angeles to have lost jobs since 1992, the locals are on Horowitz's side: they'd rather raze the farm and build a warehouse. "We don't need some dingdong like Daryl Hannah going on TV and saying people need fresh air," says city councilwoman Jan Perry. "They also need jobs." An urban planner, Perry points out, would spread the community gardening...
Quincy: Jennifer S.S. Balakrishnan, Jonathan A. Blazek, David C. Foster, Lauren A. Horowitz, Christopher M. Re, Jessica R. Rubin-Wills, Ariane I. Tschumi...
...alone? Not in that desperate sense, but in that tiny green men sense? That’s the question Professor of Physics Paul Horowitz wants to answer. He is the faculty director of Harvard’s recently christened optical telescope, which scans the skies for extraterrestrial life from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics’ Oak Ridge Observatory in Harvard, Mass. It is the first optical telescope dedicated specifically to the search for alien life. “About half [the people we talk to] think we’re looking for UFOs, and I try to dispel...
...alien civilizations light-years away are sending us messages coded in pulses of light, Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering Paul Horowitz ’65 will be one of the first to know. The Planetary Society, a leading non-profit space research organization, announced Tuesday that Horowitz will direct a year-long project to scan the Milky Way for light signals sent by extraterrestrial life using a new optical telescope at the Oak Ridge Observatory in Harvard, Mass. The telescope, which was dedicated in a ceremony Tuesday, is the largest optical telescope east of the Mississippi...