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...sense, the news last week that scientists have created a "roborat" represents an ingenious technical breakthrough. Engineers have tried for years--without success--to build robots smart enough to cross even a railroad track. Now, by combining off-the-shelf technology with a creature whose maneuvering skills have been honed by millions of years of evolution, physiologists at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn have created remotely piloted rodents that navigate complex terrain at the will of controllers who are more than 500 yards away. Wearing tiny backpacks equipped with radio transmitters and miniature...
...hasn’t been an easy 28 years for Amtrak. The national railroad company, which has continuously operated at a loss since its inception, is now in danger of being terminated. Since January, the bipartisan Amtrak Reform Council has called for the company to break up, selling its profitable routes to private sector companies while the government maintains responsibility for the rest. The time has come for the government to make a difficult choice: to reinforce and improve the national railway system or to cut off government funding completely. Although Amtrak is plagued by a multitude of problems...
Long-term residents and property owners say they are excited at the prospect of having a new Harvard campus replace Allston’s industrial lots, truck depots and railroad yards...
...development of an entirely new campus built on a mix of railroad yards and preexisting roads and commercial buildings will cost the University billions of dollars—money that will come from a mix of donors, individual schools and the central administration...
Although Goyette does not offer exact figures for these costs, he says that, for example, the discovery of toxic waste on the site could double or triple development costs. Considering that the University’s land in Allston contains old railroad property, some sort of contamination is almost ensured...