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...College takes steps to improve social life on campus and to expand across the river, Nelson will be in a position of considerable influence, charged with overseeing aspects of residential planning in Allston as well as integrating freshmen into House life...
...deaths of those six Marine snipers outside the Euphrates River town of Haditha, 150 miles northwest of Baghdad in the trouble-plagued Anbar province, was only the start of a terrible week for Lima Company of 3rd Battalion, 25th Marines. Two days later, 14 Marines, nine from that outfit, were killed by a triple-strength antitank bomb that flipped their amphibious assault vehicle into the air, igniting the fuel and ammunition inside and incinerating all but one of the occupants. The two attacks brought the death toll for U.S. troops to 29 in the space of a week and served...
...scholarships for kids in the areas where the ships do business. Mountain Travel Sobek This adventure-trip organizer works with grass-roots outfits to boost the local economy in countries like India and Sri Lanka. In China it supports the Nature Conservancy by training locals to be Yangtze River guides. Other Ways To Help Join Country Walkers' tree-planting project in Costa Rica to create a corridor for mono titi monkeys Improve health conditions in remote regions with Medicines Global by packing extra first-aid kits To offset the CO2 emissions released during your travels, go to treesftf.org and purchase...
...touting luxury beds, Internet service and fourth-night-free deals. But with a vulnerable work force in a tight economy, many workers see vacation as an unaffordable luxury--and even when they do take one, work obligations loom. "I feel like I need to go on vacation," says Elk River, Minn., mortgage-company owner Molly Nadeau, "but to go and then come home and catch up is all very stressful. I just don't feel it's worth it." Unfortunately for the travel industry, a few discounts aren't going to change that. --By David E. Thigpen/Chicago. With reporting...
Harvard’s expansion into Riverside—a large district between Mass. Ave. and the Charles River, upstream from the River Street Bridge—has been contentious at least since the 1970 construction of Mather House and Peabody Terrace. The University’s current plans, which call for a six-story building on what was recently a parking lot across from Mather, result from a 2003 compromise between Harvard and the city...