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Harvard cannot simply tear down the house, which cost its original owner $6,000 to build, because it is protected under Cambridge historical preservation laws. That is why Northeast Building Movers, the region’s leading firm for house relocations, will have to pick it up and maneuver it through the city’s streets...
Marjorie A. Lombardi also has her camera out to document the move, but her photographs are strictly business. The project manager for Northeast Building Movers snaps pictures of every job for promotional purposes...
...first saw the spectacle of a house on wheels as a young construction worker, when he once worked on a project where a building mover was brought in. In 1983 he founded Northeast Building Movers, which now averages more than 50 jobs per year...
Should you travel by bus, you may also be susceptible to promotional onslaughts. In 20 Trailways Transportation System coaches that run along the Northeast corridor, a company called NRoute Communications has installed TV monitors that descend from overhead compartments. Using wireless technology, the company can beam news, information and ads specific to the region the bus is passing through. "It's a great time to reach people because we're not competing with anything else--not the dog, cat, kids or spouse," says NRoute CEO Carlos Garcia, 36. "You don't have a choice in these vehicles--you are required...
...this signals the beginning of an abrupt change in climate, instabilities that dwarf the threat of terrorism lie in our future. If these great ocean currents are interrupted, temperatures in the Northeast might drop 10 degrees F (this winter represented a drop of about 2.5 degrees F) in less than a decade. Naturally, one winter does not an ice age make, and maybe our cold winter represents nothing more than a byproduct of regularly recurring cycles such as the North Atlantic Oscillation and El Nino. At the moment we don't know...