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Harvard's viewbook for prospective first-years pitches Boston as "The Hub," offering attractions ranging from the Freedom Trail to the Patriots football games...
...Board of Advisors Chair John Hamill says the city's transportation resources could handle the massive influx. Such large crowds are "taken for granted" in a tourist and transportation hub like Boston, he says...
...though seemingly trivial, the move does have tremendous symbolic importance. University Hall--the home of Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles, Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 and Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III--is a decision-making hub, a center of power on campus second only to Massachusetts Hall. The basement of Thayer Hall, by contrast, while only a few steps away, is miles apart in terms of prestige. Until its recent renovation, the basement housed the Harvard Student Agencies; many students remember it as the place they went to drop off their dry cleaning...
...goal of Partners HealthCare is an integrated health care system, from primary care to tertiary care," says Michelle Scarlatelli, spokesperson for Brigham and Women's hospital. "We think of the two hospitals as the hub with spokes going out to the other institutions we'll be forming affiliations with...
Along the trade routes in Texas, small border towns are preparing to shed their sleepy roots, and they are getting in position for the new NAFTA era. Laredo is already a service hub, hosting scores of freight forwarders, customs brokers and other outfits that move cargo from country to country. The tide of commerce that passes through Texas starts much farther north, and so far this year it includes more than 20,000 American-made cars and trucks -- up from fewer than 4,000 last year. From January to June, U.S. exports to Mexico rose 17%, to $24.5 billion...