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...reduce the number of cars by encouraging cycling, walking, and [public] transit,” Parenti writes in an e-mail. “One way this department...does that is through good planning and design.” 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...
...campaign was a brief, unsuccessful uprising against then-President Fujimori in October 2000. After Fujimori's government collapsed a few weeks later, Humala was pardoned and sent abroad as a military attach?, returning to Peru early last year. He is the clear favorite among Peru's rural and urban poor, who have not benefited from the country's fast-growing economy and are receptive to his promise of radical change. Those promises include claims that he would nationalize "strategic industries" like the energy sector, veto the free trade agreement with the U.S. and end U.S.-supported programs to eradicate coca...
...Each man was representative of a strain in American life. Brown grew up in Harlem, where his father ran the Hotel Theresa, which was frequented by celebrities. He earned a law degree at St. John's University, had a prominent career with the National Urban League and went on to become one of the great Washington insiders. Baldridge is probably best remembered for the Malcolm Baldridge award given to outstanding businesses or nonprofits, but he had a fascinating life. His father was a Nebraska congressman, and Baldridge went on to become head of Scovill, which makes fasteners for much...
...most violent in the state of Sao Paulo in 2000 now feel they can do business there safely. For 20 consecutive months, Diadema led the state - Brazil's industrial heartland - in the number of jobs created, and it is gaining a reputation as a model of abstinence and urban renewal...
...Ross Young, executive director of the Water Services Association of Australia, which represents 29 major urban water providers, doubts recycling water for drinking would be more cost effective for Australia's major cities than desalination. With "no demonstrated community support" for drinking recycled water, he believes desalination will remain the preferred option for coastal populations. National guidelines for recycled water are now being drawn up; Young says he would want it to be passed through a natural filter such as wetlands after treatment. "Even though the scientists say it's safe, treatment plants don't always operate within specifications. That...