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Patagonia and North Face showcase expedition weight parkas to urban dwellers in carefully restored buildings that exude a rustic sensibility. REI, an outdoor clothing company based out of Seattle, has a simulated rain chamber to test its wares...
...Harvard plans to become Allston, the University has claimed it wants to do it right: no more locked gates, no superiority complex, no unilateral decision-making. Harvard, we were told, wants to be our partner in creating an “urban-scaled village,” wants to rejuvenate our commercial center, and enhance our infrastructure. In short, we understood that the University wanted to join with us to build a community...
...plan a “green campus” in Allston. Where is the planning to make Allston/Brighton a “green community”? So much good could come of a real partnership, where Allston extends to Harvard a neighborly hand, and Harvard helps create the urban fabric and the open space, the properly scaled campus and the cultural resources that will make Allston attractive to residents, students, and staff alike. Harvard’s sad history of community relations could turn to glory if it could bring itself to join Allston in a marriage of equals...
Dingman specifically said the coordination of the First-Year Orientation programs—such as the Outdoor Program (FOP), Arts Program (FAP), and Urban Program (FUP)—would benefit from having a single coordinator...
...Over the years, Detroiters have become almost desensitized to such urban mayhem. Michael Cox, Michigan's attorney general, told TIME that Detroit has averaged one murder per day for more than two decades. Detroit's murder rate of 39.3 per 100,000 is six times as great as New York, more than three times that of Los Angeles and more than double that of Chicago. "It's even higher than in Philadelphia," says Cox, adding the total number of murders in Detroit climbed more than 17% last year. While 3,100 American soldiers have died in the war in Iraq...