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...North Allston Strategic Framework Plan, a document that came out of a series of meetings between University officials and Allston residents. It calls for an increase in the rate of home ownership and more pedestrian connections to the river as well as other improvements. Harvard Allston Task Force Chair Ray Mellone said the University’s challenges were compounded by the fact that they must keep in mind both the development of a neighborhood as well as the expansion of a campus. “Harvard has to see with a sort of double vision...
...flood-prone areas, they risk charges of incompetence, or worse. But their hesitance after Gustav to allow residents to quickly return to areas that lacked basic services like electricity, grocery stores and gas stations brought the same accusations. In addition, their heightened rhetoric as Gustav approached - New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin at one point said it could be "the storm of the century" - only hurts their credibility in subsequent potential disasters. The problem is that, while the public needs to be protected, residents face another problem: deciding how many more times they are willing to go through the drill...
...dust mentality. To get funding, individual researchers typically have to write grant proposals that demonstrate a reasonable expectation of success. "You have to have already done some of the stuff and then propose it, before they're going to believe it's the right thing to do," says Dr. Ray DuBois, executive vice president of M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and a cancer researcher. A proposal can take months to write, so a rejection means the loss of a scientist's productivity as well...
...probably call Gustav, instead of the mother of all storms, maybe the mother-in-law or the ugly sister of all storms.' RAY NAGIN, mayor of New Orleans, after Hurricane Gustav failed to damage the city as many had expected...
...Harvard Allston Task Force Chair Ray Mellone said the University’s challenges were compounded by the fact that they must keep in mind both the development of a neighborhood as well as the expansion of a campus...