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...engineering that demographic commingling is risky at best. One tract of land reserved for better-off residents recruited from elsewhere sits aside a looming apartment block whose resident unemployment level Vercamer reports as 100%. Nearby, two desperately poor men on a bench nurse cans of beer; in the distance a young man shouts at Vercamer about a municipal job the mayor was to secure for him - "One of the local [drug] dealers, who wouldn't consider the pay cut involved in taking a real job", he confides. Would middle class families come to live here...
Charlesview Apartments, a low-cost housing community with 213 apartments, will be relocated to the new tract at Harvard’s expense...
Charlesview Inc. first approached Harvard about transferring the Allston tract in 2003; in exchange, Charlesview board members proposed that the University pay for a new housing complex near the current site. From 2003 to 2006, Harvard put forth three swapping schemes that received little enthusiasm from Charlesview residents or board members...
...Africa, where diamonds are mined in conditions that range from the orderly to the horrific, and found virtually no oversight of the violence-prone alluvial-mining sites. Many stones have made their way out of the jungle and into suburban malls via somebody's lower intestinal tract. Even when the diamonds are not smuggled or traded for guns, the wages for the miners can be outrageously unfair. I met a team of diggers in the Central African Republic who were routinely paid $200 for large-carat diamonds that would easily retail...
...have twice the average risk of autism. Those with one copy face a slightly increased risk. The gene is intriguing because it codes for a protein that's active not only in the brain--the organ most affected by autism--but also in the immune system and the gastrointestinal tract, both of which can function poorly in many people with autism...