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...Among the projects on the block to pay for the $3 billion cut is the NuSTAR satellite, which would have used x-ray detection to find black holes, galactic nuclei and supernovae; the Terrestrial Planet Finder, which, as its name suggests, would hunt for Earth-like planets around other stars; and a welter of small craft known as the Explorers-discount ships designed mostly by university groups and launched in cooperation with NASA. Narrowly focused and cheap to fly, they have in the past paid big scientific dividends on very little investment...
...offer in September. Spiegelman publicly announced the deal at last night’s meeting of the Harvard-Allston Task Force, provoking a barrage of questions from residents about how the relocation of the low-income housing complex fit into the area’s overall development goals. Ray Mellone, chair of the task force that is critiquing Harvard’s plans for a new campus, asked that his group be included in a review of Charlesview’s plans for the new apartments, a responsibility not technically under its purview. Tom Miller, the director of economic development...
...back on track this month. And a few blocks away, KB Home, one of the nation's largest builders, will turn dirt this spring on 58 lots for Orleans-style homes. With $50 billion in private insurance payouts and government help on its way to the region, Mayor Ray Nagin is predicting an "explosion of growth," especially downtown...
...African-American residents, who look long and hard at any sign that the city may forbid them to return. The city has been eager to discourage piecemeal redevelopment, in which a handful of residents here and there try to re-establish themselves in vulnerable neighborhoods. But after Mayor C. Ray Nagin hinted last year that he would consider declaring certain neighborhoods off limits, the angry reaction of black residents and politicians got him to back down. For now, his Bring New Orleans Back Commission (BNOB) has been content to go on supervising a process in which residents in heavily damaged...
...hackers, never mind determined terrorists. Worse still, small improvements are often oversold as giant steps forward, lowering the guard of average citizens as they carry on their daily routine with an unwarranted sense of confidence. For instance, while the flying public is busy shedding shoes and bags at X-ray check-in points, the tons of air freight being loaded into the belly of most commercial airliners continues to fly the American skies virtually uninspected...