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...stigma--who wants a new Three Mile Island in his suburb...
...ideas: Repeal the 18.4 cent-per-gallon federal gasoline tax; increase imports of refined petroleum from Canada, Mexico and Venezuela by removing environmental requirements for reformulated gasoline; reduce the EPA's categories of "boutique" fuels to three regional blends; waiving the "oxygenate mandate" in fuels; increasing the legal per-mile deduction for business or charitable gasoline use; and asking states temporarily to waive tolls on major roads during peak travel...
...Polaroid Corporation, a longtime Cambridge resident with its world headquarters about a mile from Harvard Square, announced Wednesday that it had sold $35.7 million in Memorial Drive office space, and that it plans to sell the rest of its Cambridge landholdings soon...
...effects of that cost-cutting effort seem to have reached even the Polaroid headquarters. Once located in Technology Square near MIT, the offices moved to the company’s historic Memorial Drive building—a mile or so from Harvard Square?...
...languished. His reputation didn't really revive until the late 19th century, helped (as old painting so often is) by enthusiasms for new art--for Realism and especially Impressionism. Still, the idea that on the far side of the Atlantic some 300 years after his death, lines half a mile long would form in the freezing cold for a look at his work (as happened in Washington at the 1995 Vermeer retrospective) was unthinkable until quite recently...