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Given all these vagaries, how can cities plan to withstand earthquakes? One cardinal rule probably ought to be, Do not build on filled land. Such areas are subject to a phenomenon called liquefaction. Quake vibrations rupture the surface, allowing water-saturated soil to rise up and turn what seemed to be solid ground into something like a quaking bowl of Jell-O. In both Kobe and the Marina district of San Francisco, site of the worst damage from the 1989 Loma Prieta quake, liquefaction proved disastrous; the same could happen in the Oakland area across San Francisco Bay. Warns Ross...
...bring, Chiapas' insurgency has already earned it more attention from Mexico City than it received in the previous five centuries. In recent months, some 60,000 to 70,000 soldiers in the state have brought in mobile health clinics and distributed food to local peasants, the country's poorest. Land reform promised since the revolution of 1910 is finally being implemented: last week the state government announced that a privately held 5,000-hectare hacienda in the southerly Lacandon rain forest was broken up and handed over to peasants. ``It's a very important first step toward solving the worst...
...reason that Harvard Real Estate has property is for current or future academic use," Demong added. But HRE probably has no immediate need for the land and would likely continue to lease it to businesses, Demong said...
Demong added that Harvard might welcome a Pemberton plant nursery but not a supermarket at the Memorial Drive site. She said a supermarket would bring in too many people and would be difficult to displace should Harvard need the land in the future...
Malenfant also speculated that Harvard's rent requirements would be too high for Pemberton. "It's very hard for a supermarket to move in because of the high cost of the land," she said...