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...Cambridge charges $7.56 in tax per $1,000 of residential property value, the lowest rate in the Boston area...

Author: By Sarah J. Howland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: City Faces Budget Cuts | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...think they could “manage” the curriculum.He said that the changes were not prompted by “a sense of crisis about numbers declining or anything like that,” noting that the department has seen a stable 12 to 20 concentrators per class in recent years.The Classics department joins Harvard’s English and history departments in revising concentration requirements to make them more flexible. The Classics department will continue to require one semester-long sophomore tutorial on classical civilization. It is also reviving a required junior research tutorial that will prepare...

Author: By Alex M. Mcleese, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Classics Adopts Reform | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...month. "It's almost like a black hole in terms of the potential costs," Smolens told me. "But when you look at the alternative - progressive kidney failure - then you're talking about having to receive dialysis, and the average cost of dialysis treatments in this country is $60,000 per year plus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Health-Care Crisis Hits Home | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...convince just 1% of Indonesians to buy one quality Indonesian item per year, that is already a great start," says Alun Alun's Pincky Sudarman, who scours the country for interesting products and returns with items old and new. Alongside the traditionally made batik, for example, is a great selection of batik made using a breakthrough technique that allows for the printing of completely different patterns on each side. (See 10 things to do in Singapore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Take A Piece of Indonesia With You | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...huge and wild Big Island of Hawaii is made up of roughly 4,000 square miles (10,000 sq km) and about a dozen microclimates (including one that generates winter snow), and has about 37 inhabitants per square mile. Not one but five of Pele's volcanoes reside on the island, and one of them, Kilauea, has been continuously erupting since 1983 from a vent known as Pu'u 'O'o. World-class resorts and beaches with black, white or green sand abound, but the real draw for thousands of travelers are the lava spurts and cascades themselves. Visitors drive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Up Close and Personal with Hawaii's Volcanoes | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

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