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...Their cautionary tale was Niagara Falls, which by the 1860s was "almost ruined" - overrun by hucksters and tourist traps, with nearly every good view privately owned. Unless the government acted, advocates like naturalist John Muir warned, Yosemite and Yellowstone would end up the same way. "To Europeans," reads narrator Peter Coyote, Niagara "was proof that the United States was still a backward, uncivilized nation...
...concluding the memorial service, Reverend Peter J. Gomes noted Maher’s “grace and style” as a GSAS dean and called him an “island of calm in a sea of chaos...
...Staff writer Peter F, Zhu can be reached at pzhu@fas.harvard.edu...
...Still, Snowe has been willing to bolt from her party in the past. She was one of only three Republicans to support Obama's economic-stimulus plan in February. The White House has assiduously courted her; its budget director, Peter Orszag, interrupted his Maine vacation in August to have dinner with Snowe and an aide at a Greek restaurant in Portland. And the amicability has been mutual. While others in the GOP have gone so far as to brand Obama a socialist for his effort to expand the government's role in an industry that accounts for one-sixth...
...Peter Churchouse, a director at a Hong Kong investment research and advisory firm, says he doesn't think Hong Kong's housing market is a bubble. But some analysts worry that low interest rates, high liquidity and a tight supply of new apartments could fuel irrational exuberance. Churchouse says: "I could easily see this market developing into a bubble, but it's not a bubble yet." That should be of some comfort for the buyer who just paid $3.16 million for a 590 sq. ft. apartment...