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SpaceShipOne is set to become the first in a new line of space-tourism craft coming in 2007. "It's a spaceship that fits in your two-car garage, and you can take it to space every other day," says X Prize founder Peter Diamandis. "That's pretty cool...
...Living the Enhanced Life Re your special report "Visions of Tomorrow" [Oct. 25]: No single nation is self-sufficient in today's global society; we need one another's food, inventions, technology, banking, credit, tourism, music and fashion. International exchange students help us participate more fully in a world that is becoming increasingly linked by communication, transportation and trade. We can no longer be blinded by prejudice and narrow-mindedness. We can change the world by overcoming the barriers among people. Then we can leave the 21st century knowing that we have broken the pattern of divisiveness. Jordan Ernest-Nyembe...
Cambridge doesn’t necessarily owe automatic representation to its student population. But in all fairness, the city could not enjoy the relative prosperity it has without the presence of Harvard, MIT, and Lesley University, which collectively account for 18,000 jobs in Cambridge, attract developing businesses and tourism to the area, and foster the city’s reputation as an intellectual and technology hub. The issues that are important to Harvard students, including safety, are not out of step with the concerns of other Cambridge residents. More important, satisfied student constituents in the short-term would translate...
...candidate or party. Glenn Williams, Vice President Focus on the Family Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S. Living the Enhanced Life re your special report "visions of Tomorrow" [Oct. 25]: No single nation is self-sufficient in today's global society; we need one another's food, inventions, technology, banking, credit, tourism, music and fashion. International exchange students help us participate more fully in a world that is becoming increasingly linked by communication, transportation and trade. We must cooperate as we search for values that enhance life. We can no longer be blinded by prejudice and narrow-mindedness. We can change...
These initiatives hardly seem unreasonable in light of what Harvard gives its already privileged neighbors: money. Lots of money. Though Harvard is a tax-exempt non-profit, it rakes in a truckload of money in the form of tourism, which in turn feeds the local economy. And then there are the subsidies. Take a look at the millions and millions that Harvard will be shelling out to the Agassiz neighborhood (near the law school) for special projects over the next few years. According to census data, this pristine wilderness already has the second highest household income of all of Cambridge?...