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...other big issues facing the council involve development. Developer Forest City Enterprises wants to turn the 27-acre Simplex development near MIT into housing, business and retail space over the next 15 years...
...relatively minor risk to school-age children. In fact, by age 18, some 80% to 95% of Americans have been exposed to at least one of the five types of herpes viruses; most experience no symptoms at all. True, some 10% to 30% of those exposed to herpes simplex Type 1 will develop cold sores, but these facial eruptions, mostly around the mouth and nose, hardly qualify as a disfiguring disease. The three victims of the boycotts have more serious symptoms because they were exposed prenatally or around the time of birth...
Before the Karmarkar method, linear equations could be solved only in a cumbersome fashion, ironically known as the simplex method, devised by Mathematician George Dantzig in 1947. Problems are conceived of as giant geodesic domes with thousands of sides. Each corner of a facet on the dome represents a possible solution to the equation. Using the simplex method, the computer scours the surface of the dome millions of times to pinpoint the corner with the most likely solution. But the method is slow, and it works only when there are merely a few thousand variables to sort through. Says Karmarkar...
Some researchers are concerned that the vaccine's altered vi rus might actually promote the development of shingles. Another great worry is cancer. Viruses are a suspected cause, and another member of the herpes family, the simplex virus, is under suspicion, says Plotkin, "though proof is far from complete." Dr. Kenneth Mclntosh, a pediatrician at the Infectious Disease Laboratory of Boston's Children's Hospital, warns that before the Merck vaccine can be put to widespread use, "more years" of research are necessary to resolve such questions. Researchers also need to know how long the immunity...
...addition to the Simplex site, other areas of Cambridge are also undergoing development. The city filled in the old East Cambridge canal, a place ripe for development, and the MBTA will soon finish its development in Harvard Square. The future aesthetics of both sites are of great concern to the city council...