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...Even with the latest in computerized traffic signals and urban planning technology, engineering “good planning and design” is no simple task.Today, Cambridge is still fighting to reduce traffic congestion in the Square. The Harvard Square Improvement Project, which began this May, will transform many Square-area streets and hopes to improve pedestrian and bicycle traffic. And it is as pedestrians and cyclists that most Harvard students will benefit from these developments.There are more garages serving Harvard Square now than in the 1950s, but the problem was never really “solved...
...emergencies large and small, for their own peace of mind. When the world's first text message was sent in 1993, no one foresaw that in just over a decade, the laborious act of texting would become a principal means of communication between teens, or that it would transform the rules and rituals of adolescent courtship. Unlike talking on the phone, texting provides an emotional screen that hides shyness and awkwardness; it also buys time for the less acute to compose seemingly effortless repartee. "It's emboldened teenagers," says Australian Research Council fellow Gerard Goggin, who's just finished...
...movie is at pains to prove it has no color prejudice. It give us one blue creature who's benign (Kelsey Grammer's hirsute Hank McCoy, head of the Ministry of Mutant Affairs) and one blue meanie (Rebecca Romijn's Mystique). But it has no secret technology to transform tired ideas into a vivid movie. Instead it ransacks the fantasy-film trunk for hand-me-down thrills, and counts on the sleek beauty of Romijn, Famke Janssen (quite fetching as Class 5 mutant Jean Gray) Halle Berry (the wonder weather woman Storm) to lure the boy market into theaters...
Daly Genik, a California-based architectural firm, will transform the Citizens Bank offices in Allston into an interim art facility while the University Art Museums undergo renovations, Harvard announced yesterday. No designs were submitted during the competition process for the contract. But Christopher M. Gordon, the chief operating officer of Harvard’s Allston Development Group, said he expected the firm to submit plans for the Soldiers Field Road property within the next three to four months. Construction is tentatively scheduled for 2007, and the center is expected to open to the public in late 2008. University officials said...
...retired U.N. and World Bank consultant who has worked in Egypt and Ethiopia, I found your story on the increasing cooperation between Egypt and its southern neighbors extremely interesting. You reported that Ethiopia's Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi, said, "While Egypt is taking the Nile water to transform the Sahara into something green, we in Ethiopia - which is the source of 85% of that water - are denied the possibility of using it to feed ourselves." But Ethiopia has several major river basins besides the Blue Nile, as well as fertile land, and if it were to exploit those resources...