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When Stanford University set up a campuses wide system of bicycle "freeway" paths last fall officials hoped that the number of cycling accidents would drop. Six and a half months later, the school is almost ready to abandon the experiment.
Don M. Hisaka head of Cambridge based Don M. Hisaka and Associates, Inc., the architectural firm in charge of the renovation project, said that Gund's problems stem partly from the building's experiment design.
It was storybook stuff: the smiling hero returns home to the high school named for him and announces that he will run for President. So it was last week at the John Glenn High School in New Concord (pop. 1,800), Ohio. "All Americans share the simple values we learned...
In short, the obstacles erected by the University's failure to commit funds commensurate to the magnitude of the computer revolution stand in the way of almost every Harvard affiliate. Nontenured faculty in the department see no opportunity for advancement and leave; outside talent in the field are thus discouraged...
Hawke's experiment in domestic diplomacy provoked some predictable skepticism. Andrew Peacock, who was elected leader of the opposition Liberal Party last month, dismissed the summit as "a carnival of economic sophistry." But few could contest the necessity of dealing with what Hawke called "Australia's gravest economic...