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Mission Hill: A diverse ethnic neighborhood that borders the Harvard Medical Area, the residents of which object to the sight--and what may come out--of the smokestack of the Medical Area Total Energy Plant...
Brookline: An affluent, nearby suburb populated by many people with Harvard degrees and many professionals, some of whom have taken it on themselves to make sure the MATEP smokestack is not spewing noxious gases into their backyards...
...Affiliated Hospitals Center, now known as the Brigham and Women's Hospital, which sits snugly in the shadow of the smokestack of the Medical Area Total Energy Plant. A $19 million, 680-bed facility, the hospital complex is the largest medical teaching facility in the world...
While Massachusetts has to capture high-tech companies, other states are using different approaches. Vermont is trying to create new jobs without damaging its image as the scenic Green Mountain State. Says John Simson, director of the state's planning office: "We're not smokestack chasing. We are doing quite a bit to spread our manufacturing base." General Electric Co., for example, built one plant in Burlington, but its second new factory is in Rutland, 67 miles to the south...
Down the street from those hospitals on Huntington Ave and behind the Med School, you'll find a huge building with a smokestack that rises so high in the sky they've put little red lights on it to warn the airplanes away. Below the smokestack is the massive shell of a building that is partially vacant inside. They call it the Medical Area Total Energy Plant--a fancy name for a concept so simple--and it was Harvard's answer to the energy crisis but now it's a crisis...