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...project is the brainchild of Tokai University Professor Yoshimasa Hayashi, a former top automotive engineer with Nissan Motor and author of the Japanese book To Make the World's Best Race Car. In 2001, Hayashi decided to spice up the school's drab curricula with a little real-world engineering project: a competitive endurance racer, designed and built by his students. "Studying a race car is a great way to learn a variety of advanced technologies," says Hayashi. "And, of course, it's appealing to young students...
...rhymes with “waffle-on,” and it’s totally awesome...It’s ROFLCon. ROFLCon is the brainchild of Tim R. Hwang ’08, a senior in Eliot House who is turning his potentially embarrassing obsession with LOLCats, The Tron Guy, and Chuck Norris Facts into what promises to be a historic conference at MIT later this month. It all started when Hwang asked himself, “what would happen if we got all these people in one room?” Lucky for us, he decided to find...
...take on a Mark Birley London club. There are no window displays to reveal what awaits inside: a sleek black concierge desk, loungelike purple velvet couches and black Murano glass chandeliers. Designed by French interior architect Laur Meyrieux, Restir Midtown (above) is the latest Japanese retail sensation, the brainchild of Hiroaki Takashita, president and CEO of Restir Holdings, who is revolutionizing the ultra-luxe shopping experience with his unique stores. Ever since 2000, when less-expensive trendy clothing began to flood the market, Takashita has been on a mission to take retail to the highest stratosphere of luxury. His strategy...
...march to Lhasa, which started it all, was the brainchild of activists impatient with the "middle-path" approach. One of them, Tenzin Tsundue, now in detention in India, has been a longtime supporter of more fervent resistance. In 2002, he made news by scaling 14 stories of scaffolding of a Mumbai five-star hotel when Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji was inside. "Some would say there is a disconnect between young Tibetans and our political leadership, and that it would help if the Dalai Lama moved toward a sterner position - possibly say China better get serious about the talks or walk...
...Orleans is a distinguished figure, and we can admirably reflect upon his successful tenure and its accomplishments. At the same time, however, we are excited at the opportunity for change that a new executive director can bring. Orleans took groundbreaking steps to improve college life and college athletics. His brainchild, the Title IX legislation mandating equal funding for women’s and men’s sports, is arguably the crowning achievement in a career dedicated to enhancing the quality and opportunities of the collegiate experience. Since Title IX, participation in women’s athletics in American colleges...