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Things don't seem to be getting better at Rabiya. The surrounding streets have become the most contested ground in this part of Iraq. Insurgents move with relative freedom in the area, planting on average four roadside bombs a day while unleashing periodic hails of small-arms fire, rocket-propelled grenades and mortar shells in the direction of the small base. Four guard towers stand roughly 100 paces apart at corners of the outpost, framing a walled-off patch of muddy earth littered with shattered concrete and junked vehicles...
...developing photos manually, there is a place for them in the house, and it’s a place that I think has not been really utilized for at least the last two, three years. The state of it right now is a darkroom [that has] a developing area and two enlargers and a couple of red lights that have burned out. And the chemicals are out of date.”PRESSED FOR TIMEThough some of these house facilities see more use than others, they all face an uncertain future. The typically overscheduled Harvard student often has little leisure...
...funds. “We don’t want these technologies to end up in Death Valley,” Kohlberg said. The Accelerator Fund was launched last year with $6 million in donations that came primarily from alumni “who have an affinity toward this area.” The first found of funding—awarded last fall—was geared toward marketable research to combat widespread diseases, such as HIV, cancer, and diabetes. “My personal feeling is that academic researchers can really have significant impact on health care and society...
...says Gemma Rodriguez, one of the conference’s graduate student organizers.With many difficulties still facing the African community, much of its contemporary art has a social and political message. Blier cites the environment—in particular the destruction of places like the Delta area of Nigeria—as an example of such an issue. “Artists are not just concerned with the creation of visually profound works of art, but with addressing salient issues that are important for them and for their communities,” she says. Blier emphasizes a desire...
...MITIGATIONThomas J. Lucey, Harvard’s director of community relations for Cambridge, declined to comment on individual cases, but he says Harvard makes strong attempts to offset the effects of its development.“Harvard has probably the most comprehensive and robust construction mitigation program in this area, and it’s generally successful,” Lucey says.According to Lucey, the University hires structural engineers to survey all properties adjoining its construction projects before work begins and after it finishes. If Harvard construction has unintended effects, the University works to resolve the problem with the property...