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The secured garage, which is used by graduate students living in the Peabody Terrace complex, has been plagued by a group of "kids" who trespass and then ransack parked cars, Johnson said.
What could have caused such indiscriminate carnage? Marauding comets, exploding stars, greenhouse warming, ice-age cooling, sea-level drops, sea-level rises, ocean stagnation, oxygen depletion--every calamity imaginable has been invoked to explain the Permian extinction. But none of these agents of doom, argues geologist Paul Renne, director of...
Peabody Terrace, the apartment complex occupied most commonly by married students, may well be the most revolting building on the Charles. Designed in 1963, the building litters the riverbank with its 21-story towers and irregular terraces.
Architects have applauded the structure for its use of space between its high and low rises. But Harvard students tend to agree that the only advantage to living in Peabody Terrace is that you don't actually have to look at it.
To the environmental concerns, Terrace boosters respond that surveys have cleared the project of contributing to water pollution. As for the cost, advocates believe convention business will generate some $20 million a year in revenue for Madison, even though the Terrace itself will operate at a loss. "People will flock...