Word: projects
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Taisei calls its project Alice City, after Lewis Carroll's heroine who went underground by way of a rabbit hole. The company, which has drawn up elaborate plans, envisions two huge concrete "infrastructure" cylinders, each 197 ft. tall and with a diameter of 262 ft., that would be built as much as 500 ft. belowground. They would house facilities for power generation, air conditioning and waste processing. Each cylinder would be connected by passages to a series of spheres, which would accommodate stores, theaters, sports facilities, offices and hotels. Taisei's initial $4.2 billion design could support 100,000 people...
...kind of the frontline for tutoring once the students come to the country," says Project Literacy Co-Chair and tutor Aaron Richmond '91. "There's just a huge group clamoring to get in, learn what they need and then move on. The practical reality is that they at least need the minimum training; it's sad that we can't keep them longer...
Under the auspices of the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) Project Literacy, Harvard students in Chelsea and others in South Boston prepare area adults in basic language and math skills in one area and for high school and college equialency exams in another. The goals and shortcomings of the programs vary, but their purposes are the same: to help people return to school without shame and gain control over lives which have run upon hard times...
...PBHA's Project Literacy's longest running programs, the ECI group was started in 1986, says founder and co-chair Mary Ellen Ronayne '89. The urgency of the need for the program is shown by the new immigrants' shaky command of English...
...attempt to recapture the best of those images. 1968 is a first for TIME: a special pictorial issue of the magazine, available only at newsstands, more than double the size of the regular weekly issue, printed and bound with special care and sponsored by a single advertiser, Chevrolet. The project was inspired by the phenomenal popularity of our Jan. 11, 1988, cover story on the events of 1968, and by our own hunger for more images from that unusually graphic year. Some of the pictures herein originally appeared in TIME, others did not. All of them are compelling. Taken together...