Word: projects
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...council forwarded to its legal department an order calling on City Manager Robert W. Healy to take "any and all appropriate legal action" against the proposed project, part of the state's multibillion dollar plan to move the Central Artery in Boston underground...
Twomey argued that construction of these tunnels would cost the state from $800 million to $1.2 billion, as compared to the $400 million pricetag of Scheme Z. In addition, he said, the alternative plan would delay completion of the project by at least two years...
...approved only "after a lot of soul searching" in order to "develop a key piece of evidence." Following the spill, some 36,000 dead birds were recovered from the waters. But researchers estimate that the fatalities may have been far more numerous, between 100,000 and 300,000. The project seeks to demonstrate that the missing birds could have sunk to the ocean bottom, floated out to sea, or washed up on deserted shores. In separate studies, meanwhile, the state of Alaska killed more than 200 ducks and scores of mammals, including deer, otter, mink and seals, to analyze long...
Since Christensen, 43, started the Clown Care Unit at Babies Hospital four years ago, the project has grown to involve 25 trained clowns who make rounds at eight New York City hospitals. Two or three days a week, bands of these performers, dressed in mock hospital garb and bearing such names as Dr. Comfort, Dr. EBDBD and Disorderly Gordoon, visit ailing children and their families. The clowns' purpose: to alleviate the fear and confusion of hospital stays and provide bright moments with humorous routines, such as "drawing blood" -- with red crayons -- and giving funny-bone examinations. Christensen has found...
...would a clown give up the big top for hospital rounds? To Christensen, the C.C.U. is more than work; it's a calling. "This project came out of an unconscious place in myself," he explains. "After going through those feelings of loss and of grief around my brother's death five years ago, this gave me a feeling of celebration and joy, of healing after his loss. Call it love and caring, God, a higher consciousness -- whatever -- I want to give my life to that...