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...Charge! This, you'll not be surprised to learn, is what the government is trying to avoid at all costs. "We're going to see an evaporation of concern about fiscal restraint simply because the threat of an economic collapse is so great," says Robert Reischauer, president of the Urban Institute, a public-policy think tank. In other words, as the real world sheds debt, the government takes on more and more in the hope that at some point the economy will stabilize and then begin growing again...
...don’t want to break any traditions—we want to innovate the traditions,” says Maria Luisa F. Mansfield of the Institute for Urban Development, who acts as a bridge between the Harvard Ceramics Program and Casas de la Esperanza...
...roommate Jon, his friend Tim, and one of my fellow interns, Kevin, to explore Haight-Ashbury, a neighborhood famous for spawning the hippie movement of the 1960s. We made our way down the central vein of the neighborhood, which brought us to the entrance of Golden Gate Park, an urban green space of more than 1000 acres, making it larger than Frederick Olmsted’s creation in New York City. Having heard that there were live buffalo in the park, we set off to find them and see what other surprises...
...Lesley’s growth, said he has some reservations. “We’ve got to be very careful—we’ve already got two world-famous universities in the city who are major landholders,” said Seidel, who is an urban planner. “A third large educational institution in Cambridge is going to bring benefits but also requires we think carefully about how we develop that relationship.”—Staff writer Bora Fezga can be reached at bfezga@fas.harvard.edu—Staff writer Vidya...
...Katter has called for a cull. "They're wandering into people's backyards," he says. State Environment Minister Andrew McNamara says numbers have increased only slightly since the ban on hunting was imposed, and that for safety's sake, animals over six-foot-six long are relocated out of urban areas. Queensland crocodile expert Gordon Grigg says culling is futile: "You can never be sure you've got them all, and it risks giving people a false sense of security...