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...mean a flood that happens once a century, but rather a disaster that has a 1% chance of happening every year - which means it has a 26% chance of happening over the life of an average 30-year mortgage. The vulnerability is concentrated along the coastline of the Bay Area, where large parts of both San Francisco and Oakland could be threatened with extreme flooding by the end of the century. Even parts of the Pacific coastline that may be shielded from flooding could be at risk for increased erosion. Worse, as with Hurricane Katrina, it will be the poor...
...economically diverse, not geographically diverse, not class-diverse.” Martin Zogran, an assistant professor of urban design at the GSD, noted that the school is working to incorporate this new trend of inter-disciplinary environmentalism into its curriculum. This year, the school introduced a Sustainable Design concentration area in their Master of Design Studies program. Zenobia Meckley, a GSD student studying landscaping, said that the panel was one of many efforts that the school had of late made to engage with the environmentalist movement. “Art can play an important role in effecting change?...
...zone is currently classified as a transition area between the industrial zone in Kendall Square and the densely populated Wellington Harrington neighborhood. According to resident Isabel Caseres, the neighborhood has the lowest percentage of people with a high school education anywhere in the city, and the second highest population density...
Good rebounding has been a staple of the physical Big Green squad all year, and its athletic prowess helped to expose the Crimson’s deficiency in the area...
...where nothing ever happens. Last night, just 48 hours after the murder of two British soldiers by a dissident republican terrorist group, it saw the kind of action Northern Ireland thought it had left behind for good. A policeman, Constable Stephen Paul Carroll, was shot dead in a nationalist area of the town - northern Irish conurbations still tend to be divided along political and religious lines. Carroll was the first officer to be shot dead in Northern Ireland for 12 years...