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With the signing of an agreement that will allow the University to begin construction on the first project across the river only days away, Allston officials say they hope Harvard will continue to provide the neighborhood with benefits after the ink on the pact has dried...
...architectural firm of Graduate School of Design Professor Alex Krieger won a competition to redesign the Shanghai Bund, a stretch of historic buildings along the Huangpu river, in time for the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai...
...Bund currently boasts a promenade on a levee with a view of the Huangpu River. But the walkway is now separated from the city by a 10-lane highway, which poses an obstacle for direct human interaction with the waterfront...
...veto of an Army Corps project since 1990. And the project is arguably the most ecologically destructive Army Corps boondoggle on the books today, which is saying something. It would build the world's largest hydraulic pump to protect a sparsely populated area dominated by soybean fields from Yazoo River flooding, and it would drain or degrade enough wetlands to cover all five boroughs of New York City. Authorized by Congress 67 years ago, the so-called Yazoo Pump is a relic of an era when wetlands were considered wastelands...
...boat. In fact, Bush's Office of Management and Budget has consistently proposed zero funding for the agency's most environmentally disastrous and economically ludicrous pork - the Yazoo pump, a $300 million irrigation project for a few Arkansas rice farmers, a $300 million deepening of the Delaware River that was exposed as a boondoggle by the Government Accountability Office, an unnecessary $750 million navigation just a stone's throw from the flimsy Corps floodwalls that drowned New Orleans - but Congress has consistently ignored the proposals. The Corps is the only federal agency funded almost entirely by "earmarks," or individual...