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...spaces, improving transportation, and ensuring permeability and connections between Harvard’s existing campuses in Cambridge and the Longwood Medical Area and the neighborhood. Harvard officials say they plan to re-submit the master plan for approval in early 2009. BRA Senior Project Manager Gerald Autler said the particular nature of Harvard’s expansion justified the detailed nature of the scoping determination and would provide the University with much to think about over the coming months. “It’s certainly an ambitious agenda, and there is a lot of material to absorb...
...city has grown, human settlement has encroached into these once distant animal habitats, spooking their longtime residents. The animals are now coming out of the forest and lagoons looking for food, according to Amorim's colleague Lieutenant Raquel Jardim. And when they do, each species poses its own particular problem...
...support coal-to-liquid-fuel technology in the U.S. without a national carbon-emissions cap. Krupp now believes that with all U.S. presidential candidates vaunting their green credentials, worldwide restriction on greenhouse-gas emissions are inevitable. "It's not that we have it in for this particular technology," he says. "It's just that we don't see Sasol prospering in a world of carbon caps." One way to cut emissions is to capture the carbon dioxide. Davies says Sasol currently captures about 50% of the CO2 emitted during the conversion process and is experimenting with algae that absorb...
Kilpatrick leaves behind a city council that is itself enveloped in the smog of scandal. One-third of the council is reportedly under investigation by the FBI in connection with a sludge-disposal contract. With this particular political sludge moved out of the mayor's office, however, Detroiters are welcoming the chance for a semi-clean start with council president Ken Cockrel Jr., who will become the new mayor...
...while many questions remain unanswered about why Georgia embarked on such a suicidal war, the American role in particular seems in danger of being exaggerated. No evidence has yet been uncovered, by Putin or anyone else, that the U.S. or its advisers triggered the conflict...