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...according to Ray Mellone, the task force member who presided over the meeting, community benefits are as fluid as the architecural design itself, and creating a cohesive list of community benefits might not be feasible within the next 30 days...
...while Liz and I returned to London on the Eurostar after our weekend in Belgium, I promptly started a list on the back of a British tabloid (my new favorite reading material) enumerating the various adventures I plan to take this coming school year. I’m starting small, with trips to Inman, Porter, and Davis Squares. I also want to go to the Institute of Contemporary Art and the waterfront Back Bay area of Boston. I want to drive through Vermont to see New England’s beautiful forests as the leaves are changing color. I want...
...turned more than a few heads in June when the United Nations' World Heritage Committee, which monitors the globe's important natural and cultural sites, removed the Everglades from its endangered list at the behest of the U.S. Department of the Interior. The circumstances behind the action have infuriated Florida Democrats and environmentalists - and cast more suspicions on the Bush Administration's penchant for bending science to suit its politics...
...Everglades, specifically Everglades National Park, has been on the U.N.'s endangered list since 1993. By then the levees and canals the Army Corps had dug, as well as breakneck South Florida development and agricultural waste products like phosphorous, were wreaking eco-havoc. An astonishing 90% of the Everglades' wading bird population, for example, had disappeared. Last February, the park's experts laid out benchmarks for Everglades improvement - "which when met," the report says, "would facilitate the removal" of the park from the U.N. list. The report made it clear that while progress was being made in areas like correcting...
...meeting in New Zealand this summer, Deputy Assistant Interior Secretary Todd Willens urged the World Heritage Committee to remove Everglades National Park from the list. Enough progress had been made on Everglades restoration, Willens argued, even if the experts' benchmarks hadn't been met. The World Heritage Committee, which tries to respect the recommendations of a site's host country, went along. Kempthorne issued a statement saying he was "gratified" that the U.N. had "recognized the major commitment the U.S. has made to restoring one of our nation's and the world's greatest natural treasures...