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Battlement Mesa, the company town that was to be the hub of the new industry, still exists, but not for oil-shale workers. It has become a retirement community. Against a backdrop of majestic mountains, retirees pump iron, hike scenic trails, swim and play golf. There's no trace of the Exxon project that was supposed to be shale oil's breakthrough. All vestiges of the mine and outbuildings are gone. The road leading to the plant site is still there, but it abruptly ends at the top of the hill. The land has been reclaimed and today looks much...
...Injured. N. Chandrababu Naidu, 53, Chief Minister of the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh; when mines buried in a road detonated beneath his bulletproof car; in Tirumala, Andhra Pradesh, India. Widely respected for his drive to develop the state capital Hyderabad into a high-tech hub, Naidu is a target for left-wing guerrillas operating in his state. He was treated for nose, chest and shoulder injuries...
...renovation and reconstruction of Baker Library will result mainly in what amounts to a student center. In fact, Harvard Business School’s Spangler Center, which opened in 2001, already meets that need admirably. What will make the new Baker Library/Academic Center so special as an intellectual hub will be a combination of features—from the latest technological and multimedia capabilities to new offices and conference areas to the restoration of great historical spaces such as the Reading Room—that will preserve and strengthen this important building’s world-class collections and superb...
...made as a graduate hub, the Allston campus will someday be a thriving center of life that rivals Harvard Yard. But if undergraduates are relegated across the river, the heart of the college—and the University as a whole—will be relocated at the bottom of the Charles River, and students living in Allston will be made to trudge back and forth to exile...
...Easy Check-in The southern Chinese city of Zhuhai wanted to be a regional hub so it completed an international airport in 1995?with a capacity of 11 million passengers annually?at a cost of $830 million. But few have come: only 744,000 travelers used the airport last year, and management routinely turns out the lights between flights to save money...