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First of all, Cambridge is not your average urban sprawl. Green, shady oases like Harvard Yard, Radcliffe Yard, JFK. Park at the Kennedy School and the Cambridge Common (only during daylight hours) offer plenty of space for frisbee games, touch-football and soccer...
...Neill's tenure in the office saw the district weather the civil rights movement, the expansion of national social programs, the extension of urban sprawl, the Vietnam War and increasing gentrification in Cambridge...
...improvements, however, would make the new Coop more friendly to the student population. First, the store needs more comfortable seating. Book superstores around the country provide shoppers soft chairs and couches and ample space to sprawl on the carpet, bridging the gap between bookstore and living room-a fact the Coop seemingly ignored in the redesign. The new store is cool and spatially tight, and is dotted not with couches but with the stiff, wooden Harvard chairs found in some classrooms and dorm rooms, hardly inviting us to sit and stay awhile...
Leslie Chamberlain came to Wilmington from St. Louis, Mo., to escape suburban sprawl and find a pretty little place where she could live a neo-Victorian fantasy as the proprietor of a gracious bed and breakfast. Nobody in Wilmington thought the ebullient, almond-eyed woman had a chance of making a B and B work; the town had never had one before, so people assumed it couldn't be done. But in 1990 Leslie and her husband Rick, a physician with good business sense, bought an ornate 1869 brick Victorian house on South Street. After six months of painting, wallpapering...
...having gone from 175 people to 375 this year alone. The original Richmond studio now has an outpost working busily on a direct-to-video sequel to Toy Story, and there's a mysterious third major project in the works too. Jobs has plans for a new studio, to sprawl on 16 acres in industrial Emeryville, near Berkeley. Interior plans have been carefully drawn--before the exterior--to ensure a cross-pollination of ideas. And of course, he says, all the offices will be the same size...