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...don’t know that [collaborations] can be institutionalized,” Tarr Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology Markus Meister says. “People find people, that’s how collaborations come about,” he says, adding that he sees no institutional barrier that needs to be broken...
...other side of the table is the union’s team. They are 12 workers of diverse backgrounds but several common experiences—poverty, hardship, incredibly long work hours, immigration, separation from their families, cultural alienation from American society and the constant hurdle of a language barrier. From its position of privilege, Harvard management’s overtures to the janitors are consciously dishonest and reflect an unwillingness to understand what paycheck-to-paycheck life is like...
...will never become the digital hub of the home of the future. The reason is, as Steve Jobs says, "[Apple is] the only company that owns the whole widget--the hardware, the software and the operating system." But what Jobs sees as Apple's biggest advantage is also the barrier that will block the company from reaching its goal. There is a reason that the Windows/Intel PC is the standard in personal computers and that its makers control 95% of the personal-computer industry: the PC platform is open to all. Anyone can provide new hardware or software...
...Hong Kong flu of 1968 together killed more than 1.5 million people worldwide. Considering the lethal history, scientists are keen to track the mutations of the latest virus. Although only the 1997 variant infected humans, the concern is that another fatal combination could leap the species barrier at any time."We do not know enough about H5N1," Shortridge says. "It's a dangerous situation...
...that's pretty much the last rational thought I have for a good ten Minutes. Before I can catch a breath, I'm smashed up against the metal barrier with eight ski-jacketed arms and elbows waving microphones and tape recorders reaching past me to get to Casey. I try to get away from the crush, which you'd think would make other people happy since it would provide a new front-row audience with FitzRandolph, but I can't leave move. In a daze, it occurs to me that I am now being more intimate with 20 total strangers...