Word: subways
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...There are lots of things we could do,” says Kathy Spiegelman, director of the Allston Initiative and Harvard’s lead land planner. “While the Harvard population numbers probably don’t correspond to a need to build a subway, or other things like that, for Harvard the investment in major things might be worthwhile in the long...
...MOSCOW Underground Alert Last week the Russian government received a warning from Interpol that Chechen terrorists planned a chemical attack in the Moscow subway. The special mobile rescue force of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry (MCHS) went on red alert. No public warning was issued and no attack took place, but the MCHS rushed staff to Moscow just in case. The incident reminded Russian security agencies that the threat of further Chechen attacks is real, and exposed worrying gaps in Moscow's readiness to respond. A MCHS source tells TIME rescue workers began training for a chemical attack last December...
...thousands of Boston drivers have taken advantage of the latest blessing afforded them by the gargantuan public works project known as the Big Dig—a tunnel connecting Logan airport to the Massachusetts Turnpike. The three-and-a-half mile tunnel, which runs above an active subway and below Amtrak and commuter rail train lines, is an engineering feat for the history books. After 12 years and $6.5 billion, the tunnel officially completes Interstate Highway 90, which now reaches all the way across the country from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean...
Sellars says he urges refugee participants to think of “five things they want to say during their speeches, five things they’d want fellow Americans on their subway to know...
...really impressed by how quickly Kimberley S. Mak ’05, who runs the PBHA tutoring program Best Buddies. “It will grant my volunteers a lot more opportunities—we can organize trips to places other than Cambridge and use the subway more often...