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Harvard representatives said in July that they were willing to scrap what they had often described as the project’s “centerpiece”—a tunnel to connect the two buildings, which is the only piece lacking official permission—in order to leave the negotiations behind and begin construction on the Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS...
...deep faith and a laconic style inherited from his coal-miner father. Colleagues saw zero change in him after Sept. 11. "Doing it over 30 years, he doesn't get rattled," says his friend Bill Wisman, chief inspector for passenger-vehicle operations at the bridge and the Detroit-Windsor tunnel. "All I've seen in him," says his wife Linda, "is greater determination." On April 26, Linda awoke around 4 a.m. to find Ben sitting up talking on the phone. A suspicious briefcase had been left in the middle of the parking lot. "Call the bomb squad," Anderson said...
...Newman is arguing her other cases and commuting from New Jersey to New York. "I spend my life in the Holland Tunnel," she says, sighing. But Padilla v. U.S.A. has swallowed her summer. "I haven't been to the shore once," she says. "I went to Fire Island. I was one block from the beach, and I stayed inside the entire time." She sends letters to Padilla but has no idea if he is getting them. She keeps in touch with his family. Civil-liberties groups besiege her with offers of publicity and free legal advice, but she ignores them...
...while the planet may be a long way from being saved, when the corporate titans so often accused of being among its worst abusers see the need to spend two weeks making common cause with the tree-huggers, there may be a light at the end of the tunnel...
...holy grail of speech science--making conversation with a computer easier than typing--is still a long way off. Today's software makes lots of mistakes, and its main market is users who have no other option, including office workers who suffer from carpal-tunnel syndrome. Yet progress is being made, and Kanevsky's technology is sneaking into daily life. His employer, IBM, and competitors Nuance and Speechworks offer enterprise products that replace those endless touch-tone-phone menus with a computerized attendant that can connect you directly to the right person. The big users are banks and airlines...