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Tempers flared and questions remained unanswered at a fiery meeting of Allston residents and Harvard officials last Wednesday. The meeting marked the first discussion with Allston residents since the University released a robust 50-year plan earlier this month for its fledgling campus across the Charles River. State Representative Kevin G. Honan, a Democrat, attributed the unusually high turnout to Allston residents’ hope that University officials would adapt the master plan more directly to neighborhood concerns. “It’s a difficult time in the process. The neighborhood wants specifics but Harvard...
...prep school in Houston," Molly recalled. Born in Monterey, Calif., in 1944, Molly had moved back to Texas with her family as the war wound down and her father's military service ended. While he worked as a corporate attorney for an oil company, the family lived in River Oaks, Houston's top-flight neighborhood...
...propaganda wars between North and South Korea, each side is constantly conjuring up new security threats, real and imagined. The South Koreans say the Communist North's latest weapon is water?tons and tons of it. The dispute involves the Kumgangsan Dam, now being built on the North Han River near the Demilitarized Zone. The facility will produce 800,000 kW of electricity and create a reservoir holding 20 billion gal. of water. South Korea charges that if the dam should ever collapse or be demolished by the North, the resulting flood would be a disaster. Thundering down...
...South Koreans would, of course, rather not build such a white elephant. Last week they appealed to the North to sit down this week at Panmunjom "to earnestly discuss utilization of the resources of rivers." For Koreans the tactical use of water has historical as well as practical aspects. In the 7th century, General Ulchi Mundok defeated an invasion of 300,000 Chinese by retreating to the flooding Chongchon River near Pyongyang; the waters helped him virtually to annihilate the Chinese force...
Proposals for relief include channeling more water out of Lake Michigan into the Chicago River and reversing two Canadian rivers that spill into Lake Superior. But experts are pessimistic. "Lowering the lake levels by any significant amount is going to take eight to twelve years," says Wisconsin Sea Grant's Jim Lubner. "Even under the most aggressive plans proposed, we're talking about lowering the levels only a foot...