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...Harvard is currently engaged in two development projects over the medium and long terms. Dormitory renovation projects at other Ivy League universities, in addition to widespread dissatisfaction among students, prompted the College to announce a 15-year, $1 billion renovation of undergraduate living spaces. Meanwhile, the university continued to make progress on the Allston Redevelopment Plan, a project which seeks to develop Harvard-land across the Charles over the next half-century...
...historical integrity of the buildings. The announcement was greeted enthusiastically, albeit tempered by the knowledge that our children’s generation has more to look forward to than we do. In the meantime, the University should not overlook the current conditions of undergraduate housing. A 15-year renovation project does little to alleviate the substantial problems with sanitation and facilities maintenance facing today’s students...
Let’s hope there’s no danger of that. This is just a big scientific good-will project, and the Russians are just trying to further the common scientific cause. But then again, maybe they’re not. Does anyone know the price of a one-way ticket to Uruguay...
...Mozambicans were willing to give it a try. "Rats are intelligent, and they like to learn new things," says Jared Mkumbo, a Tanzanian who supervises the training of the rats and their handlers. "You can train them to do exactly what you want them to do." The project, run by an organization called Apopo, which is funded by the Flemish government in Belgium, is proving so effective that a new batch of mine-sniffing rats is scheduled to be deployed in Angola later this year...
...this type of work, argues Mkumbo. They are easy to train and transport to clearance sites, cheap to feed, and resistant to many of the tropical diseases to which dogs succumb. In the field, they are quick and methodical. Thirty-six rats trained in Tanzania are working on the project so far, and have already cleared thousands of mines across the country. "Two rats can clear a 200-square-meter area in one hour," says Mkumbo. "It takes one [human] de-miner two weeks to do the same area." And all that the rats ask in return is tasty food...