Word: siting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arguments about cheap kilowattage and reliable service aren't very attractive to the people who must live with the power plant in their backyard. There was a time when the Francis St. area residents who live closest to the site could have stopped this power plant--or any medical expansion for that matter--right in its tracks. That was back in 1969 when the University sent eviction notices to 180 tenant families in the Francis St. section of Mission Hill so it could clear the area for land-banking purposes. The tenants, with strong support from striking students at Harvard...
...that point Grady and the anti-power plant faction may literally strap themselves to the pillars of the vacant homes that remain on the power plant site, creating a highly visual presentation of Harvard bulldozing a community. The outcome may yield some political compromise, but it is more likely that by that time Harvard will have gone too far to be intimidated by bad public relations, on the eve of construction...
...more potent Edison will try to stop demolition--but with court cases, not imagery. Murphy says that Edison is willing to take Harvard to the Supreme Judicial Court to gain an injunction if the University tries to demolish any of the buildings on the site. Murphy cites a few loose-ends in Harvard's case: "Nobody has ever proven that the area in question is really blighted and the original urban renewal plan says that area is meant for rehabilitation and not the installation of a large industrial facility." He says Edison is optimistic about winning the challenge in court...
Bejeweled Blondes. The natural home of quarter-horse racing is Texas, where ranchers have long enjoyed pitting their fastest horses against the pride of their neighbors. But race-track betting is outlawed in Texas. As a result, the twin capitals of quarter-horse racing−and the site of the All-American Futurity for 17 years−are the adjoining towns of Ruidoso and Ruidoso Downs, located in the bone-dry Sacramento Mountains, across the state line from El Paso. Every Labor Day weekend the population of these sleepy communities soars from 5,000 to 35,000 as quarter-horse...
Puzzling Disparity. In another study, the National Cancer Institute surveyed the cases of 219,493 white and 21,088 black patients whose cancers were diagnosed between 1955 and 1964. It found significant differences in survival by race, site of cancer and sex. Half of the white women in the study and a third of the white men survived at least five years after diagnosis. Among blacks, 40% of the women and less than 25% of the men survived five years...