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...parking garages,” Gross says, “but will rather have significant parking structures underground covered over with green spaces.”By building over existing development and replacing at least some of it with green space, the University’s construction is the rare project that will actually increase open space. The idea for an urban farm—which Gross admits “may seem a little farfetched”—takes the idea of creating an open campus to a new level. The plan follows Yale?...
...risky as it can be to let Biden step away from the teleprompter, it is in these moments that he can be most affecting. When he made a rare unscheduled stop at an ice cream parlor in Charleston, W.Va., Biden encountered the owner's daughter, a 28-year-old woman who told him she had suffered a brain aneurysm last December similar to the one that nearly killed Biden in 1988. The Senator threw an arm around Sara Beal's neck, pulled her to him and whispered in her ear. By the time he let her go about five minutes...
...Gist: In a rare and personal report on the much-speculated-upon Battle of Tora Bora in Afghanistan, former Delta Force commander Dalton Fury attempts to lay to rest the inconsistencies, inaccuracies and falsities which he says were perpetuated amid the hunt for Osama bin Laden in December 2001. Fury blames an "excitement-starved general public," a clueless intelligence community, an even more clueless press corps and the need to keep Delta Force operations classified for a misguided account of the operation that he calls "fantastic and exciting stuff, but utter hogwash...
...important to have a sense of camaraderie with other female artists.” The weekend’s concert was a way of promoting this sense of fellowship and of encouraging women to work together, she said. “Having an all-woman line-up is really rare,” Tuttle said. “Usually women are competing for one spot in a line-up.” Tuttle’s performance was followed by Kelsey M. Quigley ’09 and her band. Between performances, audience members competed in a trivia contest...
...northeast Syria suspected of being a nuclear facility. Syria has also been shaken by attacks from within its borders. In February, Imad Mughniyah, posthumously identified as the top military commander of Lebanon's militant Shi'ite Hizballah, was assassinated in a car-bomb explosion in Damascus. Last month, a rare car bomb exploded in the Syrian capital, killing 28 people...