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Something of a turning point came, however, when the University negotiated a deal to prevent a large Harvard Square developer from building two large towers along the banks of the Charles River on a tract of land known as Parcel 1B. Instead, Harvard purchased the land itself and built the University Place office building along with the adjacent University Green condominiums--both of which opened...
Prior to the record $27.4 million invested in1986, the single largest expenditure Harvard madefor commercial property occurred in 1978 with the$4 million purchase of the so-called Parcel 1B, apreviously undeveloped tract of land along theCharles River now occupied by the University Placeoffice building and the University Greencondominiums...
...mothers, the researchers found that women who had used barrier contraceptives had 40% less risk of tubal infertility. The explanation, suggests one of the report's authors, Harvard Epidemiologist Marlene Goldman, is that these contraceptives prevent any germs carried in the semen from reaching the upper genital tract and causing pelvic inflammatory disease, the most common cause of tubal infertility. Concluded Willard Cates, of the Centers for Disease Control, in an accompanying editorial:"The ulimate educational message is that barrier methods ((ideally used with spermicides)) will not only prevent unplanned pregnancy in the short run but also preserve desired fertility...
...Testament, Javert in the retributive God of the Old Testament. The story resounds with images of Christian redemption. Yet it is by turns a panorama of the underclass, a Gothic romance about love at first sight threatened by family secrets, a psychological study and a radical tract. The novel's scale and complexity seemingly defy adaptation to a musical, especially one that in the fashion of opera, sets every word to song. The stage version's triumph is that it captures the book's essence while speaking with absolute clarity to that vast majority of spectators who have not read...
...plan, approved last Tuesday by a 5-4 vote, will enable the city to buy a 100-acre tract of land on the banks of the Merrimack River...