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Harvard has made a commitment to the City of Boston allowing residential development on a small parcel of its landholdings in Allston—a rare gesture from a University that has frustrated residents by remaining closemouthed about its plans for certain neighborhood properties...
Some Chicagoans seem not to want the hassle. Construction of the Olympic Stadium would make much of Washington Park inaccessible for at least six months. "I love this park," says Aaron Fonville, 42, while watching a neighborhood baseball game on a recent Sunday. "I don't want to see anyone messing with its preservation." The $1 billion Olympic Village, meanwhile, is scheduled to replace a set of historic hospital buildings designed by famed German Modernist Walter Gropius - a plan that Jonathan Fine, executive director of Preservation Chicago, calls "cultural vandalism...
Greg and Chris have started another new habit--taking walks in their neighborhood each evening. "If our daughters want to talk about their day and Mom isn't sitting on the couch," says Chris, "then they say, 'I'm coming with you.'" So instead of emulating their parents' less-than-wholesome eating habits, the girls are now learning from their healthy example. And that's an idea that makes sense for working parents everywhere...
...Foreclosures are not good for anybody. It's the last thing any lender wants to do. It's the worst thing for a neighborhood." (The Myrtle Beach Sun-News, March...
...other made of glass, she and seven other women traversed the Al-Rasheed's marble hallways looking for government assistance. They had been evicted from a squatters den three months ago, after being kicked out of their homes during the ethnic cleansing of a Baghdad neighborhood in 2006. She stops suit-and-tie men wearing expensive jewelry, asking for high-level politicians by name, to see people who an hour earlier shared the stage with Maliki. "I know I'm an old woman, but I can't find anyone to help me. I came here because...