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Heat in the buildings is provided by three underground steam mains in a tunnel called the "Mill Street Header," which are activated by October 1 each year. A computerized valve system regulates the supply of steam to each building, and can be turned on or off from a terminal at the Facilities Maintenance Department. Until October 12, department members flip switches based on students' calls; after this date, a computer controls the heat automatically...
...Next year Massachusetts will begin a ten-year, $4.3 billion project to rebuild and reroute some seven miles of highway, including Central Artery. Construction will add four traffic lanes, enough to accommodate an anticipated 210,000 vehicles a day, and will replace the elevated roadway with a tunnel. But Transportation Secretary James Burnley sternly criticizes the underground portion of the project for not adding enough capacity...
...This team just didn't quit," Restic says. "I've been down to the Yale Bowl a few times when we've just had so much enthusiasm coming down here, going through the tunnel, coming out on the field. And there's one danger--that you come out flat. I was never worried about that with this team. They were calm, cool, collected...
...Harbor cities like San Francisco and New York once boasted intricate networks of ferries carrying thousands of passengers each day. Then came the Golden Gate Bridge and the Holland Tunnel and dozens of other highway links. By the mid-1950s, urban ferries were a vanishing species, victims of America's love affair with the automobile. But these days, with once gleaming bridges and tunnels clogged with traffic or closed for repair, ferries are making a comeback...
...plan is a revised version of a project that was rejected two years ago. The older version called for construction of a tunnel through which the students could walk out to Kennedy St. University officials said that plan was scrapped because of high costs and concerns that it would cause congestion...