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...much-beloved sculpture garden, but encased it in glass, he says, "like one would a precious object." It still serves as the museum's beating heart and the centerpiece of the entire block?Taniguchi compares the museum to New York itself, calling the sculpture garden MOMA's own Central Park. Thereafter, he says, the interplay of spaces involved attempting to "connect the two cores"?the sculpture garden and the atrium?via a series of bridges, balconies, stairs and passageways, which link the various galleries in a splendidly (and newly) nonlinear and open floor plan...
...striped hyenas howling at the moon, endangered greater one-horned rhinos wallowing in the mud, sloth bears eyeing you suspiciously from overhead branches, and the newest feature, flying squirrels the size of cats, gliding among the treetops. Visitors can walk along paths that cut through the park's 16 lush hectares or take a 45-minute guided tram ride. There's also a special 40-minute show that brings the animals right up close. And unlike their drunken human counterparts in the bars a short drive hence, these creatures of the night don't need inebriants to make them wild...
...issues to address. Even given the added impetus of a series of sexual assaults over the past year, the city government has been excruciatingly slow in making safety on the Cambridge Common a priority. While poor lighting and a lack of emergency callboxes make a walk through the park unnecessarily dangerous, not even the rash of gropings over the past year could convince Cambridge to shell out the cash for security upgrades. The UC maintains an official liaison to the City of Cambridge, but the sluggish pace of the negotiations only underlines the need for a directly-elected Harvard affiliate...
...become a symbolic issue," says Drew Altman, president of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a health-policy research group based in Menlo Park, Calif. Even though online pharmacies account for an estimated 90% of U.S. drug sales from Canada, the busloads of seniors trekking over the border for their meds have become an indelible image. Bringing in cheaper drugs from next door looks like a simple step that could provide immediate relief. "People can relate to it," says Uwe Reinhardt, an economist and health-policy expert at Princeton University...
Under a 2003 agreement, Harvard is allowed to build taller buildings on its Riverside property than abutters had originally wanted, in return for creating a park, instituting permit parking, and building 36 units of low- and moderate-income housing...