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Mortgage rates dropped to the lowest level on record for the sixth time in seven weeks, offering the most attractive opportunity in decades for those who qualify to refinance or purchase a home.Government-controlled mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday that the average rate for 30-year fixed loans this week was 4.49 percent, down from 4.54 percent last week. That s the lowest since Freddie Mac began tracking rates in 1971.The average rate on the 15-year fixed loan dropped to 3.95 percent, down from 4 percent last week and the lowes
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Boston, like a number of coastal cities, is facing a tricky problem in the coming years: Sea levels are rising, and rising quickly, leaving ci
stanley shop ties more and more at risk for intense flooding. Could building a canal system help keep Boston high and dry A report from the Urban Land Institute takes on the question of what to do about the encroaching sea, currently pushing up on land at a rate of about 0.11/inches per year. In addition to some more conventional methods of stemming the tide, including improved seawalls and elevated construction, they have another suggestion: Turn Boston Back Bay into a canal system. Noting that the Boston Harbor has risen about a foot in the last century 鈥?and could go up anywhere between one and six feet in the next one 鈥?the report suggests a system in which alternating streets are transformed into canals much in the way Venice and Amsterdam have for centuries , while some streets are left preserved. Of course, even without a deliberately-constru
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stanley mugg n projection of Cambridge Alewife Quadrangle shows: You can check out the whole report right here. CitiesClimateFloodsWater