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Sprawl plagues once sleepy hamlets, as development follows highways and then builds new housing right to the edge of town. So Cambridge (pop. 7,000) drafted Warren Hanson, a former yoga teacher turned urban planner who champions livable, affordable neighborhoods, to fight back. In St. Peter, Minn., dubious officials watched Hanson on the council-chamber floor maneuvering toy cars and Styrofoam houses on a gigantic paper plan of a neighborhood. "That was when their light turned on that this could work," says city administrator Todd Prafke. "It's like the neighborhoods where they grew...
...BEAVER THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON Beaver has become shorthand for 1950s naiveté. But as you can see over 39 episodes (TV seasons, like airline legroom, were more generous then), its picture of child-hood could be tart as well as sweet. When Beaver (Jerry Mathers) is worried that his teacher will hit him over a minor mess-up, Wally (Tony Dow) corrects him: "Only the coach can hit you." Beaver was never edgy, but it packed its own good-natured punch...
...impact of remittances. Zamora's work in California has paid for a new three-bedroom house, the first his family has ever owned. The changes his cash have brought to his family within one generation are dizzying; one daughter has trained as a nurse, another as a teacher, and his son as a radio technician. "The first time I wore shoes, I was 14 years old," Zamora says. "I don't want my family to go through that." It's a similar story in Indonesia where Endang's monthly money transfers from four years' work as a nanny in Hong...
...once lawyer-to-be is now the president of WGBH, Boston’s PBS affiliate. “It was completely life-changing,” Hallowell said of Lamb’s animation course. “Not only was he the single most influential teacher I had at Harvard, but he was one of the single most influential people I’ve ever met.” Lamb often took a personal interest in students’ lives and work, whether that interest was manifested by encouraging Leaf to experiment with sand on glass...
...telling the Journal that they suspected “foul play” but would not elaborate. Shahabuddin was a member of the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research. He was made a full professor in January of 2004, and won the engineering school’s Great Teacher award later that year. He was also awarded the Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award by the school’s Alumni Association. Columbia students were informed of his death by e-mail on Friday. Faculty in his department were shocked by the death. The head of his department, Professor Guillermo Gallego...