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...failures, however, often are: the cost of keeping 2 million people in prison boosts the U.S.'s GDP, as does fuel sales, despite the correlation with traffic congestion and pollution. Sustainability is also ignored - a heavily wooded country could see its GDP skyrocket if it turned over all its land to loggers. (See 10 ways your job will change...
...Harvard University has been completely recalcitrant,” said local resident Brent Whelan. Like some other critics of the current plan, he said the proposal’s faults could be alleviated if the University would allow for residential development on more of its unused Allston land holdings. Until “Harvard is an actual participant” in the planning process, a viable agreement would be impossible to come to, he said. Harvard representatives sat nearly silently at the back of the room, with Kevin A. McCluskey ’76, Harvard’s director...
...land swap agreement between Harvard and the Charlesview board of directors was intended to allow the University to consolidate its Allston land holdings while providing residents with much-desired new housing and amenities...
...Charlesview and its contracted real estate developers, the Community Builders, first floated to Harvard the idea of a land swap and apartment relocation in 2003. Several years passed before the agreement was finalized, and the plan has since floundered in a City review process that includes extensive provisions for revision before ultimate approval. A new and improved draft, now undergoing a period of community input and review, is finally nearing a long-awaited green-light from City planners...
...most powerful in Southeast Asia, commanding a vast spice- and mineral-trading empire. While much of Indonesian Islam is syncretic, mixing traditional local beliefs with the imported faith, Aceh's belief system is generally far closer to the orthodox form practiced in Saudi Arabia, where the law of the land is based on Shari...