Word: techs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These problems are not new nor confined to Cambridge. Rapid gentrification threatens affordable housing and Cambridge's historic diverse population. As the economy changes, displaced workers cannot easily find new jobs in the high tech world. The public schools must lower the drop out rate and prepare a higher percentage of kids for college. The public health system becomes increasingly financially burdensome while public and private hospitals quarrel...
...picture, with a truly scary villain--a rare treat these days when real life is more frightening than the movies. If you've seen it even once, you remember at least two scenes: the one early on in which the killer robot from the Future picks up his high tech weaponry at a corner "Sport Shop" so heavily equipped it could be a member of NATO; and the sequence half-way through in which the Body lays waste to a police station, killing at least 30 people in a futile attempt to get the right...
According to the artwork's sculptor, A.E. Ryan, "Eat Here" was inspired by the transformation of Kendall Square from a "pretty, low key factory area to a very upbeat, yuppie, high-tech area...
...Gehry became briefly famous and nearly rich for inventing Easy Edges, a playful, functional line of furniture. The structural principle was ingeniously low tech: cardboard was glued and sandwiched together, each layer of corrugations at right angles to the layer above and below. The furniture was cheap ($37 for a chair) and chic. But Gehry decided he could not stomach becoming known as a designer of ubiquitous designer furniture. Less than three months after it was introduced, he withdrew Easy Edges from the market. "I was trying to make the Volkswagen," he says today. "I did, and it worked...
...buyers have been mainly professional, Le Vaux said. "A lot of high-tech people coming to the Boston area will find their way to Cambridge," she said...