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Harvard students raked yards, tiled floors and washed windows Saturday as part of a day of city-wide service intended to strengthen the Hub's community spirit...
Take Harvard Square, which is a hub for increasingly ruthless retail competition. This is a Square that has attracted--in the middle of a recession, no less--stores like HMV, Tower Records, Structure, The Body Shop, Origins and Learningsmith. With the notable exception of the Coop, most of these stores are not consumer cooperatives but for-profit companies, in which business decisions are made and profits kept by investors, not consumers...
...beating hasn't stopped. Last December the Department of Energy announced the closure of the EG&G Mound Applied Technologies nuclear-weapons facility in Miamisburg (pop. 18,000), which employs 1,600 and pumps millions into the community. In January USAir closed most of its hub at Dayton International Airport. Heavy dependence on the auto industry gives residents the jitters: with eight plants employing about 20,000 workers, Montgomery County has the largest concentration of domestic GM jobs outside Michigan...
Boston Magazine released its annual list of the best and worst the Hub has to offer this week, and two of Harvard's most recent additions received conspicuous mention...
Carnesale also hopes to use the Kennedy Schoolas a "hub" for the rest of the University, and totake advantage of the "opportunity to bring tobear the resources of Harvard University on publicpolicy problems...