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...Where Some Designers Get Their Ideas This season collections had a wide range of inspirations, from 18th century painters to 1980s hipsters- 9/14/06
...book’s highlights include the successful crackdowns and trials which ended piracy’s “golden age” in the early 18th century, the story of successful pirate-gone-legit Captain Sir Henry Morgan, and (of course) the chapter “Torture, Violence, and Marooning...
...ahead of MIT, which is ranked 21st. However, MIT is much more successful than Harvard in “technology transfer”—converting ideas into applicable technology—and does particularly well in creating startup companies, the report found. Harvard ranks 18th in the “technology transfer” category. Part of the reason for this discrepancy comes from the different focuses of the universities, according to Erik Halvorsen, the director of business development in Harvard’s Office of Technology Development. While MIT focuses on engineering and the applied...
...Where Some Designers Get Their Ideas This season collections had a wide range of inspirations, from 18th century painters to 1980s hipsters- 9/14/06
Shopping for that cozy central Paris pied-à-terre? Consider the ad in the daily Le Monde: 18th-century townhouse, 4,137 sq m of floor space, huge courtyard, lush 2,400-sq-m garden - all tucked away in the city's ritzy seventh arrondissement. A perfect nest for your (very extended) family. Who'd part with such a jewel? The divestment-minded French state, that's who. "This is part of a major process to renew and rationalize France's real estate holdings," says an adviser to Reform and Budget Minister Jean-François Copé. Since June...