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Plans for restoration began in 1999. The federal grant money kicked off the restoration efforts last summer. The first phase—now in progress??is the construction of an educational website that will report on the progression of the project. Then, Senior Conservation Scientist Narayan Khandekar and his staff plan to begin analysis of the thick layer of residue obscuring the paintings to determine exactly what was deposited in each portion of the painting. Paint chips smaller than a printed period were extracted from portions of the mural with the tip of a scalpel. The specks...
Peabody parents and administrators said they questioned the merging of the Peabody School, which tops the district on standardized tests, with the Fitzgerald School, which the state recently identified as not making “adequate yearly progress?? for the past two years...
...beautifying” the city as a whole. The area’s economy is improving; it is a safer place to hang out after school gets out, and some people have moved in as an alternative to the suburbs. There is a sense of “progress?? for an area that was once a blighted eyesore. Seemingly overnight, the slummy shacks and projects disappeared and “dream homes” arose. Through this experience, I have seen the establishment of new communities and the uprooting of old ones, changes whose origins I don?...
Such changing neighborhoods are easy to embrace because of the “before and after” pictures of the urban makeovers. But soon enough, questions arise: Where did the old inhabitants go? Are they also enjoying “progress?? in more “pleasant” scenery and “beautified” neighborhoods? How much choice did they have in the relocation that accompanies skyrocketing property taxes? I believe that there are two main ways of looking at the situation. First, the same inevitable forces that drive change perpetuate community segregation. Second...
...heated negotiations between Harvard and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 254 seemed for weeks to be making little progress??on Feb. 26, a group of union and student activists were arrested by Cambridge police for civil disobedience as they protested the apparent gridlock by stopping traffic on Mass...