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After her year with Americorps, Woo, then 21, began taking the train from her Lexington apartment to Bunker Hill Community College, using funding from One Family Scholars, which provides homeless or formerly homeless women with scholarships to use education as a path out of poverty...
YWAM was founded in 1960, primarily to train and promote short-term missionary work by evangelical young people. It boasts a staff of 16,000 people in 149 countries, and its local offices have considerable autonomy. It is well respected in the larger general evangelical world for taking on one of its most necessary tasks: making sure that the thousands of teenagers and twentysomethings flooding into developing nations to do missionary work have at least some grounding before they depart. Notes Moreau, YWAM is "lean, it's nimble, creative, and there's very little hierarchical control." It has dealt with...
...Manfredi says, the project is “something radical.” The Graduate School of Design (GSD) is currently exhibiting material related to the project in the lobby of Gund Hall. And something radical it is. It is a landscape built over existing infrastructure, including highways and train tracks, and the new, Z-shaped Olympic Sculpture Park brings together city and nature. According to Manfredi, “One of the fantastic things about the site is that there are two primary views: one leg reminds you that this is a park in the city, the other leg?...
Dozens injured in train crash...
...Trains can save the world.That may sound a bit hyperbolic, but it’s true. Traveling by train—instead of plane or car—reduces carbon emissions, weans the nation from oil, and revitalizes dying communities.In fact, the benefits are so overwhelming that I insist on taking the train almost anywhere I go—including when leaving Cambridge for home. I live in Chicago.The environmental and economic benefits of train travel are well documented: the emissions per passenger per mile are about one-tenth of flying, for example, and it was only after...