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...active member of the International Congress of Modern Architecture (CIAM)—an informal, avant-garde association of European architects—Sert became involved in an international effort to strengthen urban centers in the face of a trend towards the abandoning of urban cores. This was seen as a problem both in Europe after the physical devastation of World War II and in the U.S. with ever increasing suburbanization due to the automobile. The group sought to create “new ‘hearts of the city’ that would become unique centers of collective...
...Baker Library/Academic Center so special as an intellectual hub will be a combination of features—from the latest technological and multimedia capabilities to new offices and conference areas to the restoration of great historical spaces such as the Reading Room—that will preserve and strengthen this important building’s world-class collections and superb library and research services. When the facility is ready for occupancy in late 2005, it will fulfill the goal of fostering collaboration, interaction, and integration among faculty, staff, students, alumni and outside scholars...
...addition to the two new national centers, the NIH is endowing nine new regional laboratories. This flurry of research funding comes in the wake of pressure from Washington—through the president’s Project Biodefense and similar initiatives— to strengthen biosecurity research programs in the face of national security concerns...
...Communism, after all, that let our national conscience slip enough for Reagan to arm, fund and train terrorists and dictators around the world during the 1980s—among them Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. Surely, there must be an alternative to fear, a mindset that will strengthen rather than suspend basic human, and American, values rather than drive us to set more traps for ourselves...
...Dean Joseph B. Martin said he hoped the NRB would help strengthen the ties between faculty at HMS and its teaching hospitals, bringing together basic science and clinical research...