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...undertake a tricky expansion. "I'm not looking for trouble," he says, laughing. "But I never find myself in an easy space, where they say to me, 'O.K., here's a piece of land--go do it.'?" At 71, he's well known for the clarity of his problem-solving in complicated spaces. "Today," he says, "the discussion of architecture is based too often on how funny you can be with making new shapes. We all know that making new shapes is not very difficult. What is more difficult is to make new shapes that make sense...
...poor health infrastructure make it hard to ensure that patients take their daily doses for the six months that are needed to eradicate the infection--all of which encourages drug-resistant strains to survive and keep the disease going. "We are still in denial about how bad this problem is and how much worse it's going to get," says Dr. Jim Kim, head of social medicine at Harvard Medical School...
Part of the problem was the lousy job Bush and Paulson did selling their plan to relieve banks of their toxic loans. They failed to brand it as an economic recovery plan instead of a bailout, a surprising mistake for an Administration renowned for giving initiatives perfumed names like Healthy Forests and Clear Skies. They began by demanding almost Napoleonic levels of authority, although they later compromised on that. They released the $700 billion figure without making it clear that the Treasury can eventually get most of the money back or even turn a profit if the economy rebounds...
...crisis is brewing. In light of a several recent studies underscoring the importance of sleep for strong academic performance, a number of Massachusetts colleges have become alarmed to discover just how little their students are sleeping. The problem is endemic to many institutions—according to a 2007 study, nearly 40 percent of college students reported feeling rested no more than two nights a week. As a result, several nearby colleges including BU, MIT, Tufts, and Wellesley, have initiated sleep-awareness campaigns to enlighten students about the need for Z’s. With 24-hour libraries, time-consuming...
...would not be wrong to suggest there are a lot of reasons why we shouldn’t pay these swashbucklers their ransom money. Would that there was a way to dispense with the problem more surgically and without having to spend a dime. But alas, this is a potentially explosive global situation, the sixties are over, and sometimes you just have to throw caution to the wind and open your wallet—wide...