Word: neighborhood
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...Cells cleverly separate the most active genes into their own special neighborhood, to make it easier for proteins and other regulators to reach them,” said Job Dekker, a senior author of the paper and associate professor at UMass Medical School...
...There was this car driving slowly around my neighborhood,” Mao said. “It stopped and backed up when the drivers saw me coming towards them. Two people jumped out of the car and waited on the side of the road in a dark spot...
Despite the mugging, Mao said of the neighborhood, “it’s a pretty safe neighborhood in general...
...Charlesview Redevelopment, a proposed housing complex to be built southwest of Harvard’s planned Allston campus, is nearing BRA approval after years of delays. But neighborhood activists are attacking the plan, saying that it squeezes too much onto too little land. They are calling on Harvard to commit more of its area landholdings to the project—property not designated for any future institutional use—and say that the University will only acquiesce at the Mayor’s request...
Thus, with Allston languishing in the wake of Harvard’s expansionary slowdown and neighborhood planning plagued by constant antagonism, some activists have shifted their attentions to the Mayor and BRA. But residents say the City has been unresponsive to community needs and that the only solution may be drastic, fundamental reform of the system...