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With the onset of capitalism, Praga's main thoroughfare, Zabkowska, has been partly renovated, and young local artists have moved in, attracted by low rents and an abundance of postindustrial space. Now cool galleries and bars coexist with crumbling historic buildings that harbor Virgin Mary figures in their backyards...
When Rolls - which also manufactured aircraft engines - went into receivership in 1971, the auto and aerospace units became separate companies. After a variety of owners, BMW took over and now builds the cars at a plant in Sussex. A low-rise, energy-efficient facility, it currently operates one line and one shift that turn out four to five handbuilt cars a day. The 550 employees include craftsmen - skilled cabinet and saddle makers, for example. Most Rolls sold are bespoke; on average customers pay an extra $20,000 to have a car customized. The company is adding a second line next...
...students’ aid needs. “One, Harvard is rich. Two, most of its students are not poor. It’s not easy for other schools to follow the example set by Harvard because they don’t have the money, and they have more low-income students,” Baum said. Donahue took issue with the claim that Harvard had fewer lower-income students than most schools. “We are trying very hard to aggressively recruit talented students world-wide, regardless of their financial backgrounds,” she said...
...program’s low pay requires many preceptors to teach year-round, leaving little time for them to write on their...
Water isn’t flowing as freely as it used to, at least not in student showers. Over the summer, Harvard Yard Operations introduced low flow showerheads, which use only 1.6 gallons of water per minute instead of 2.5, into several of the Houses and freshman dorms. Leverett, Mather, and Dunster received the new heads over the summer, and the showerheads are currently being installed in other Houses and the freshman dorms. All told, it is expected that the new showerheads will save close to 2.5 million gallons of water and $40,000 per year, which is clearly...