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...evicted all the retailers from 90 Mt. Auburn St. and demolished two century-old buildings in order to build what is now a Harvard library administration building. James W. Gray, the associate vice president of HRES, says that these examples do not detract from the University’s mission to encourage local business and its “goal for the Square, which is to have a vibrant and successful Harvard Square.”Gray says that “people who are paying attention” understand that Harvard is an ally in the battle to keep...
...Even more promising - if far more speculative - is the mission profile for the crews. All of the Apollos landed near the lunar equator, a comparatively easy target for first-time visitors who don't plan to stay too long. A moon base would have to be built in the harder-to-target poles. The perpetual sunshine in most of the extreme north and south means plenty of light for energy-producing solar panels; the perpetual darkness in the shadowed polar regions means a steady supply of water ice, which can be harvested for consumption and fuel manufacture. Currently...
...Gordon may have been too revved up to restrain his grammar. The Louisville, Ky., attorney, who has long dreamed of arguing before the highest court in the land and who in recent months had a sign in his office that said "Washington D.C. or Bust," has been on a mission to overturn the racial guidelines Kentucky's Jefferson County adopted to keep its public schools integrated. The student-assignment policy, which the local school board voted to keep even after a judge lifted a desegregation order in 2000, tries to maintain black student enrollment at each school between...
ANDREW DUBOIS Mission, Kans...
...talk of a humanitarian crisis is not true." OMAR AL-BASHIR, President of Sudan, rejecting a U.N.-backed peacekeeping mission in war-torn Darfur. Al-Bashir maintained that fewer than 9,000 people had been killed in the conflict, instead of the 200,000 reported by international media...