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...officials said on Monday they hope to ask Boston by the end of April for permission to build. Internally, the University is also set to release faculty reports outlining its science and arts goals for the new campus by the end of the semester. Neither an architect nor an urban designer, Gordon specializes in project management—satisfying the demands of contractors, architects, and in Harvard’s case, faculty and residents. “I envision my group as a service organization,” explains Gordon of the Allston Development Group, which now includes 20 staff...
...want to bring my perspective as the CEO of a $5 billion school system to engage Harvard more broadly in the challenge of improving urban education—simultaneously strengthening both the institution and the nation,” he wrote in an e-mail...
...collection shows anything, it’s that they did both aplenty. Coxsone then took Gordy’s lead and tried to convert Studio One into a “hit factory.” With Dodd’s guidance, the Wailers cultivated a fan following among urban Jamaica’s alternately-romanticized-and-reviled hoodlum “Rude Boys.” In the early years, though, sales led to artistic stagnation. The first disc-and-a-half of the chronologically-ordered “One Love” rarely deviates from its heavy...
...roads. Students interested in trying it should begin by having an idea of where they are going and pointing themselves in the appropriate direction to get there. Generally, a straight line between two points will offer the shortest distance and therefore the fastest commute time, though in an urban environment, walkers should be aware that this may not be safe, let alone possible, due to automobiles and other obstacles. Beware of trashcans, mailboxes, telephone poles, walking-surface inconsistency, and most of all, other walkers. Begin by placing one foot in front of the other, then transferring your weight from...
Jasienska and her team tested 171 urban and rural Polish women during their menstrual cycle, according to the study. Women with up to a 1 millimeter difference in length between the second and fourth digits of their hands were considered symmetrical, and the rest were dubbed asymmetrical...