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This is not some namby-pamby, middle-of-the-road compromise. This is a new understanding of the fundamental building blocks of life based on the discovery that genes are not immutable things handed down from our parents like Moses' stone tablets but are active participants in our lives, designed to take their cues from everything that happens to us from the moment of our conception...
...also one of its most famously endangered ones, forever being flooded by its signature canals. Ever since the 14th century, Italian engineers have dreamed of ways to control the water. Now a solution may be at hand. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and Venice Mayor Paola Costa attended a stone-laying ceremony in May to begin work on the long-delayed Moses project, a vast series of sea gates that may finally keep the sodden city...
...Alan Stone, Harvard’s vice president of government and community affairs, indicated that notions of Harvard moving the roadway or the toll plaza were completely implausible...
...Stone pointed to the extensive negotiation process that led to Harvard’s protection agreements for the MTA and the MBTA, which shares the railway with freight carrier...
...Stone said yesterday that Harvard plans to work hard to maintain trust...