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Finally, many of the most important decisions that are currently being made at the University concern the planning of our vast new campus in Allston. By the 1990s, community opposition had essentially shut down any new construction in Cambridge. If the University is to grow, that growth must occur across the river. The inevitable consequence of Summers’ belief in undergraduates and the life sciences is that much of the new campus will be devoted to expanding life sciences and improving undergraduate life. Summers coupled that vision with an increasing understanding of community-building. He championed new housing...
...economist trained at Great Britain?s Cambridge University, is committed to cutting tariffs and economic liberalization. Aides also say that while Bush has not visited India, he regards it in some ways as his father did when he was U.S. envoy to China in the 1970s - a country with vast potential that is just beginning to come into its own. Says the aide: "He?s very excited about this trip. He knows how important it is." And, he might add given the current circumstances in Washington, how welcome...
...there are certain shared qualities: an attention to detail, a preference for handmade materials and designs, and a taste for natural textiles and light fabrics made from silk and cotton. Much of what distinguishes Thai fashion, in fact, is in the details?made possible because of the country's vast supply of skilled craftspeople, whose traditional styles get incorporated into utterly contemporary final products...
Almost since the day the H5N1 virus was first discovered, India has loudly proclaimed itself free of the bird flu it causes. The discovery that 50,000 chickens have died of H5N1 in the western state of Maharashtra has confirmed what many long suspected: that for a vast country with a chicken population of around 2.4 billion producing 33 billion eggs a year on 160,000 farms, the arrival of a disease thought to be spread by migratory birds was only a matter of time...
...year. Its three-mile runway will be wide enough to land the new Airbus 380--or, for that matter, the space shuttle, boasts Zaid Zwain, Kurdistan's director of civil aviation. "Imagine, people used to fear the sound of jets because of the bombing," he says, standing on the vast, still unpaved runway...