Word: sites
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those who want to spend a summer excavating mysterious ruins, why did you to come to Cambridge? But Anthropology S-15, "Introduction to Archaeological Research in the Field," plans to make use of the materials at hand. The agenda includes digging up the South Yard, the site of the Old College and Indian College of the 1600s. Boston University Professor F.J.E. Gorman hopes his projected 20 students will be able to find evidence of 17th-century student ideologies--"evidence of student revolts," such as broken glass and dice and cards, from a time when gambling was forbidden...
...researchers nor the children's families knew which drug was given. Nine months later, 39 of the youngsters who had received dummy shots had developed chickenpox. But no vaccinated child caught the disease. A few children getting the vaccine had pain, swelling and redness at the injection site and chickenpox-like rashes, but there were no long-lasting or serious adverse effects. The experimental vaccine was developed from a strain of varicella vi rus isolated in 1974 in Japan by Dr. Michiaki Takahashi. Researchers used a live but weakened form of the virus to trigger the body...
...controversy that has attracted much public attention is what to do with the old Simplex Wire and Cable factory site, a 27-acre parcel of land in Cambridgeport. Because the site is the last large, undeveloped area in the city, many people from both the public and private sectors are concerned with what will be built there...
...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...
Citizens of Woburn have been concerned for over a decade about the hazards of toxic waste stored in a city dump site. Their worst fears were confirmed this February by the release of the results of a two-year study carried out by two researchers from the School of Public Health...