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...with enough determination and inspiration - and reliable financing - transformation can happen. The proof is that this month, in the first part of a $1.2 billion, multistage redesign of its 16 acre (6.5 hectare) campus, Lincoln Center will reopen Alice Tully Hall, its chamber-music auditorium, in a building ingeniously reconfigured to announce to anybody passing by, Come in, we're here, make yourself at home...
...University employs a “very aggressive and thorough pre-construction program” that anticipated rodent displacement from the work site. He also pointed out that an explanation for the rat influx might be the failure of community members to dispose of trash properly in rat-proof garbage bins...
Alpert—who is co-leader of a project that started over a year ago to make Allston a “rat-free zone”—added that by creating outreach programs to educate community members and to provide rat-proof trash containers, Harvard has been “trying to be good neighbors” and actually “went out of [its] way” to rid a local church of rats...
...findings, announced in January at a meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America in Philadelphia, have caused a stir in archaeological circles, bringing to light proof of deeds usually encountered just in classical texts. Conducting a CSI-style cold-case forensic analysis of the site, James pieced together clues from records of earlier excavations at the Roman city of Dura-Europos, whose ruins are in modern Syria. An army of Persians had sacked the city and abandoned it, deporting its captive population deep into Persian territory. Dura-Europos became a ghost town, engulfed in sand until joint French-American teams...
...Islamabad proclaims the steps as proof of its bona fides in cracking down on terrorism. "I think today's announcement reflects our seriousness in bringing the perpetrators to justice," Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Pakistan's Foreign Minister, told TIME. "It is a testimony to what we've been saying, that we're serious about the investigation. What was given to us was fairly sketchy - but through our own investigations, we've been able to act. The Indian High Commissioner was called in today, and we handed in our investigation. We have shared it with our friends abroad, the European Union, China...