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...just how high expectations became on a quick tour of the Neustadt residential district on the western edge of Halle. Neustadt is a depressing example of Soviet-style urban planning, with row upon row of gray concrete blocks, built in the 1970s to house some of the 40,000 people who worked at the chemical factories that once dominated the local economy. Firms with names such as Buna and Leuna belched pollutants into Halle's air while churning out products whose quality lagged far behind western examples...
...spike in Japan's cases shows that swine flu can infiltrate safety nets there and elsewhere, lingering beneath the radar of health monitors. Government officials are still unsure of how the virus reached Osaka and Hyogo, or how long it has been circulating in the region's highly populated urban centers of Osaka and Kobe. In addition to schools, movie theaters in the outbreak-hit prefectures were advised to close today, and Tokyo has blocked its own educational institutions from visiting the areas on field trips. "We must be prepared for a further expansion [of the virus]," says Toru Hashimoto...
...Barry’s Corner, at the intersection of Western Ave. and North Harvard St., has long been envisioned as a future commercial hub in Allston similar to Harvard Square in Cambridge.While Kroin focused on various land use scenarios for the Corridor—he considered including a quiet urban park, an athletic field and playground, or both a quiet and active park—residents seemed more concerned in their break-out group discussions about housing ownership patterns in Allston and the plans to relocate the Charlesview apartments to the Corridor. “People like the idea...
...major cities, Taipei and Kaohsiung. Looking to spin the lush island's yin for cycling into a way to reduce pollution, the Taiwanese government launched the service hoping commuters will ditch their cars and start using the thousands of rental bikes it has stationed around the two urban centers to get to work. "Cycling is a great way to unwind after work," says Horace Lee, a corporate planning associate at the Taipei Stock Exchange. "I cycle around the neighborhood just for fun before I hop on the metro...
...from three schools in and around Plymouth, on the southern coast of England. Kids at the first school, an expensive private academy, got an average of 9.2 hours per week of scheduled P.E. Kids at the other two schools - one in a village near Plymouth and the other an urban school - got just 2.4 hours and 1.7 hours of P.E. per week, respectively. (See nine kid foods to avoid...