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Re-re-development?

It's an exciting time to be alive

by Charlie Kratovil / Columnist

This month, New Brunswick Mayor Jim Cahill unveiled the latest proposal from New Brunswick's all-purpose redevelopment authority. The New Brunswick Development Corporation, better known as Devco, proudly presented plans for a 34-story office/residential tower on Livingston Avenue occupying the current homes of two of the Hub City's great theatres, the George Street Playhouse and the Crossroads Theatre.

To infinity and beyond

Wouldn't it be totally awesome to go into space? Eccentric billionaire Richard Branson thinks so. His brand-new space tourism venture, Virgin Galactic, has been booking seats on suborbital flights into space, which the company's Web site thinks will be possible as early as 2009 in two ships - SpaceShipOne and SpaceShipTwo.

Defend our education: walk out

Letter

by Hoda Mitwally

For centuries, Baghdad had enchanted the world as the global capital of knowledge and education. My grandfather was no less charmed by Iraq's intellectual tradition. In 1933 he moved to Iraq for several years where he taught history at what is now Baghdad University.

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Quote of the Day

There is simply no role at the NJSDA for a company that believes it can be paid to manage but is free from responsibility for its errors.

Scott Weiner, the CEO of the New Jersey Schools Development Authority (NJSDA), speaking about the Gilbane Construction Company's ban from construction on New Jersey's public schools.

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