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...takes nearly a week to get to Moscow. In Khabarovsk, the Lada, the boxy, no-frills Soviet compact ubiquitous in European Russia, is vastly outnumbered by Toyotas, Nissans and Hyundais on the highway connecting Irkutsk, on the eastern fringe of Siberia, with Vladivostok. "They call the Far East the Land of the White Toyotas," Moisseev says. He added that First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov had been spending a great deal of time in the Far East; in March, Shuvalov had taken part in another anti-crisis forum in Khabarovsk...
Harvard has held land occupied by CSX since 2000, when it purchased 47 acres of land adjacent to the Charles River and in between Harvard and Boston University from the Mass. Turnpike Authority. Three years later, it acquired another 91 acres directly south of that parcel...
...those land holdings—blanketed with tangles of railroad tracks and sliced by the Mass. Turnpike—cannot currently be used by the University because of CSX’s long-standing easements, which restrict the land’s use to railroad operations...
Marshall also said that discussions between Harvard, the State, and CSX over the past few years have yielded a “roadmap” outlining conditions that would have to be met before CSX can fully remove its operations from the area and transfer its land holdings to Harvard, including environmental testing and “other important due diligence benchmarks...
...That much land, that close to the City—it always seemed like there was a higher use for it,” Berkeley said...