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...through good planning and design.” Even with the latest in computerized traffic signals and urban planning technology, engineering “good planning and design” is no simple task.Today, Cambridge is still fighting to reduce traffic congestion in the Square. The Harvard Square Improvement Project, which began this May, will transform many Square-area streets and hopes to improve pedestrian and bicycle traffic. And it is as pedestrians and cyclists that most Harvard students will benefit from these developments.There are more garages serving Harvard Square now than in the 1950s, but the problem was never...
...Exploration,” a 500th anniversary show of Columbus’ 1492 voyage and Brown’s final accomplishment as the Gallery’s director.In organizing these exhibitions, Brown paid acute attention to detail and respected each person’s contribution to the project, according to Daniels, who worked with Brown in the eighties.“He was the best kind of person to work with,” she says. “He always thanked people and was always aware of it, and when things went wrong, he did not fly into...
...Diadema's transformation has been well worth it. "The decline in the murder rate was substantial, the most substantial we?ve seen globally over such a time period," said Bob Reynolds, director of the Pacific Institute's Alcohol Policy Initiatives in West Virginia and a consultant on the Diadema project. "They made a relatively modest intervention...and they got these dramatic improvements. I was able to tell them, 'This is as good as it gets...
...groups of militiamen, white supremacists and neo-Nazis are using resentment over the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. as a potent rallying cry. "The immigration furor has been critical to the growth we've seen" in hate groups, says Mark Potok, head of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center. The center counts some 800 racist groups operating in the U.S. today, a 5% spurt in the past year and a 33% jump from 2000. "They think they've found an issue with racial overtones and a real resonance with the American public," says Potok...
...Australian team are devising a new set of monitoring tools to better detect the presence of specific hormones in water. One of the criticisms of using recycled water for drinking is that it can't be tested for every possible contaminant. But Chapman says the Global Water Research Coalition project, due to be completed mid-next year, will make testing unnecessary. Rather than having to carry out hundreds of costly and time-consuming tests for contaminants and speculating on their possible effects, scientists using the "toolbox" will be able to take a much simpler approach, detecting biological effects...