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Study shows higher ed floats Hub economy

BU Chancellor John Silber (left) speaks with Paul Guzzi, president and CEO of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, at a March 11 event marking the release of a study that measures the regional economic impact of eight Boston-area research universities. The study found that the universities injected $7.4 billion into the regional economy in 2000. Photo by Kalman Zabarsky

By David J. Craig
The city of Boston, which boasts one of the largest concentrations of colleges and universities in the world, has always been associated with brainpower.

Global warming = rising sea levels, more storms
Future extreme weather could cause billions in damage to region

Flooding in October 1996 caused the Emerald Necklace’s Leverett Pond in Brookline to overflow its banks. Photo courtesy of the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency

By Brian Fitzgerald
On October 21, 1996, 10.8 inches of rain — over a month’s worth — fell on Boston in one day. The precipitation, “more than what Noah saw,” commented an official from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), caused the city’s Muddy River to overflow and run down the MBTA D Line into the subway at the Longwood station tunnel.

Lady basketball Terriers earn first bid to NCAA tournament

Coach Margaret McKeon and guard Alison Argentieri (CAS’03), who scored 17 points against Vermont in the America East tournament quarterfinal. Photo by Steve Woltmann

By Brian Fitzgerald
In 1999, when BU hired Margaret McKeon to coach a struggling women’s basketball team, she laid out a blueprint for building a true winner. The project, in real estate terms, was a bit more daunting than a “fixer-upper,” since McKeon was inheriting a 5-22 squad.

University to provide health coverage free to supported grad students

ARTS
CFA seminars tune in to musicality

By Tim Stoddard

At the height of the Inca empire, hundreds of suspension bridges spanned canyons and rivers in the vertiginous regions of the Andes Mountains
At the height of the Inca empire, hundreds of suspension bridges spanned canyons and rivers in the vertiginous regions of the Andes Mountains

       

21 March 2003
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