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Because Widener Library is internationally renowned and has the world's largest open-stack collection, Loker's contribution "is something that will affect learning across the world," said President Neil L. Rudenstine at the ceremony...
...were told that the donation of books to Harvard was the largest," said James K.M. Cheng, librarian of the Yenching Library...
...blasted up and replaced by some pretty fountains, park benches and begonias. In 1991, the Central Artery/Tunnel Project, affectionately (or not so affectionately) known as The Big Dig, was started to combat ferocious traffic problems in the Boston area. The plan called for Boston's exposed artery--its largest eyesore--to be buried. The Artery's traffic will be carried instead along a 10-lane underground expressway. Anyone living downtown better be ready to feel safe above hollow ground: most of the city's notoriously sludgy earth will be infiltrated by miles of tunnels traversed daily by as many...
Putting these two highway improvements in the ground of a city like Boston amounts to one of the largest and most difficult infrastructure projects ever undertaken in the country. Though facts and figures may be fascinating to the future engineers and city planners among us, not everyone wants to know the force exerted by each 24-ton steel beam in the hole at South Station. The really interesting facts surface at the site; they come from people wearing hard hats who spend hours at a time 140 feet underground. And for the guy (or girl) who still hasn't given...
...lack of a single national issue did not prevent a Democrat from winning the gubernatorial race in the nation's largest state and a number of other close contests across the country...