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Paul Berkeley, president of the Allston Civic Association, said it was important to relocate CSX’s operations carefully because switching to less-strategic shipping routes could raise the cost of goods throughout the region. But he praised the agreement and said it would be nice to get the “dirty old railroad out of our neighborhood...

Author: By Michelle L. Quach and Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: State To Take Over Allston Railyards | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

...Most crucially, the entire region has to realize that defining itself solely by the misperceived needs of a single industry has left all of southeastern Michigan dazed and bleeding. And yet the conditions for resetting that economic model couldn't be more favorable. The collapse of the UAW's prohibitive wage scale, coupled with the vast unemployment, is turning what was once the nation's most expensive labor market into one of the cheapest. For the first time since Henry Ford offered $5 a day to the men who assembled the Model T back in 1914, Detroit is open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detroit: The Death — and Possible Life — of a Great City | 9/24/2009 | See Source »

...been mugged by democracy (or the pretense of democracy, in the latter two cases). In Israel, democracy is very real, but the elections resulted in a right-wing coalition that has refused to freeze illegal settlements in Palestinian territories. This intransigence has led to a diplomatic stall across the region. The Palestinians seem as inept as ever, unable to present a united front for negotiations. The Syrians, who always seem almost-ready to make peace, seem less almost-ready than they did a few months ago. The other Arab states in the region, especially Saudi Arabia, have refused to provide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Foreign Policy Needs a Domestic Boost | 9/24/2009 | See Source »

...versions of the same resolution have been presented annually for the past 19 years - the IAEA assembly passed a second resolution that couched the same objective in much more engaging language: a Nuclear Weapons Free Zone (NWFZ) for the Middle East. Though the idea of a NWFZ for the region has been around since the 1970s, it has largely been the preserve of leftist groups like Greenpeace or a tool for pressuring Israel, the only Middle East nation believed to have nuclear weapons. But not only was the latest NFWZ resolution supported by Israel; it could also provide a tool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is a Nuclear-Free Middle East a Pipe Dream? | 9/23/2009 | See Source »

...Israel, where the government has previously refused to discuss the issue until hostile Arab and Muslim nations recognize the Jewish state's right to exist. The new IAEA resolution that Israel nominally supported calls for the use of dialogue to achieve the end of nuclear weapons in the region, which of course can't happen as long as there are no diplomatic relations between Israel and other Middle Eastern countries. (See pictures of what may be Syria's nuclear reactor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is a Nuclear-Free Middle East a Pipe Dream? | 9/23/2009 | See Source »

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