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...Hotel. But a week before its first bus was scheduled to leave, the company was suddenly notified that it had to change locations, and “scurried” to inform its passengers, according to Bluzenstein. Vamoose’s Bluzenstein said the company is still working to obtain the license and hopes to begin service again soon. “We got a lot of positive response there from Harvard students,” Bluzenstein said. She said that the failure to obtain a license was a result of miscommunication with the company’s corporate partner...
...dreams of attending the Kennedy School of Government and the Law School to obtain a joint masters degree in public policy...
...realization of this dream is still, in many ways, just the beginning. The educational achievements Woo has worked so hard to obtain may put in jeopardy the welfare provisions she and her daughter need to survive. —Staff writer Aditi Balakrishna can be reached at balakris@fas.harvard...
...round Boston’s skyscrapers. “The buildings act like a mountain range,” pilot Philip Greenspun explained as the helicopter circled the John Hancock Tower, “so it’s natural to experience some turbulence.” Since he obtained his pilot’s licence in 2001, Greenspun—a computer science affiliate at MIT—said he has logged over 2,000 hours of flight time including a flight from Los Angeles to Alaska. The rotors of the helicopter stirred up clouds of snow...
...failed to address the national shortage of clean water. Much of the blame lies with India’s poorly managed central distribution system, a relic of British colonial rule. Because the government fails at providing a 24-hour water supply even in its capital New Delhi, most Indians obtain their water through other means like tube-wells or groundwater pumps. But even these rudimentary sources have been nearly exhausted. A 2005 World Bank report warned that if the government maintains its current policies, in 20 years the country will face a water crisis with violent regional clashes over...