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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sacramento Street since March but would not do so without discussion with the Community and planning for an alternate use. Why then did they send in the bulldozer without notification or discussion at this time when, as Mr. Moulton says, the University has no immediate plans for the site? Why did Harvard take out the demolition permit late on Tuesday and destroy the house early on Wednesday if not to prevent Community action? The University knew that the Community, the Planning Board and the Historical Society all wished to save that wonderful old house. And why flatten the garden? When...
...brownish-gray slag scattered amid the sandy soil of Israel's southern Negev Desert. First spotted by the late American biblical scholar and archaeologist Nelson Glueck, the heaps seemed to be remnants of an ancient copper-smelting operation of pre-Roman origin. Now, after excavating at the site with a team of West German mining experts, Israeli Archaeologist Beno Rothenberg reports that the slag is only the tip of an archaeological treasure. A short distance away, he says, is the oldest underground mining system ever found...
...suggested parking arrangement of 400 on-site spaces and 300 back-up spots will be more than sufficient to handle the influx of tourists, the statement concludes...
...best documented and most tangible adverse effect of environmental noise upon human activity is speech interference. Noise levels below 60 dBA interfere very little with conversational interference occurs above 70 dBA. In the community around the Library site, existing outdoor day-time 10-percentile noise levels range 51-78 dBA, depending on location and day of the week. The 10 percentile daytime noise levels for 17 sampling locations averaged 71 dBA during weekday peak traffic hours, and 67 dBA on Sunday afternoons. Thus the area is already fairly noisy...
...Library should have at least one beneficial noise impact: the site is not expected to be as noisy as the wheel squeals and banging sounds produced by present MBTA operations