Word: belgians
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While being in the presence of these great minds is a little more than intimidating for FM, it’s clear that there is definitely one academic department that keeps the f of u [f(u)] in fun. “Belgian ales and [famed algebraic geometer] Oscar Zariski in a straw hat — what else can you ask for in life?” fourth-year math grad student Nicholas A. Ramsey says...
...INDICATORS Strong Signals Belgian phone company Belgacom sold €3.3 billion worth of shares in the largest IPO in the country's history, and the biggest in Europe for three years...
...first-year publication: professors are using articles in their class syllabi and students are still referring to it months after it was published. The magazine already has groundings on the web, within the International Standard Serial Number administration and international recognition including a permanent subscription from a Belgian publisher. Cinematic has featured student-written articles next to submissions by people ranging from the producer of The Graduate to a Cannes-awarded Iranian director. All in all, 40 undergraduates and ourselves have been working extremely hard over the last two years to produce a magazine that is competing in quality with...
Military dogs heading to Iraq are getting their own body armor. The Marine Corps trains German shepherds and Belgian Malinois for guard duty and, with added schooling, to sniff out bombs and drugs. Now they will be equipped with Kevlar vests, which protect the dogs from shoulders to rump. The 7-lb. vests (cost: $1,000 each) have pouches for cooling packs--panting alone won't do the trick in an Iraqi summer--as well as loops for ropes to help the dogs climb steep terrain and a harness for parachuting into hostile territory...
...series Now Who's Boss? Jonathan Tisch, CEO of Loews Hotels, goes to work in one of his own hotels as a room-service waiter and delivers a meal to a guest from Belgium. The Belgian is unfazed to see that he is being videotaped. In America, he must assume, you always get a reality-TV crew with dinner...