Word: complexity
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...rises out of the tidal murk of the Meadowlands - the polluted northern-New Jersey wetlands on which the sports complex of the same name was built some 33 years ago - like a garish species from a monster movie. What is that swamp thing? It's a mishmash of big-box structures covered in aqua, blue and white tiles, with a little mustard yellow and brown thrown in to finish off the 1970s-nightmare look. Part of the complex, still under construction, is shaped like a ski jump, because what says industrial metropolitan America quite like a Nordic sport...
...Xanadu did Kubla Khan/ A stately pleasure-dome decree." It's also the name of a ridiculous 1980 Olivia Newton-John movie involving roller-skating muses and disco. Slated to open in August, Xanadu, a wannabe shopping paradise, will be a 2.4 million-sq.-ft. retail and entertainment complex located 3½ miles from the Empire State Building, across the Hudson River at the intersection of the New Jersey Turnpike and two heavily trafficked state roads through which 88 million vehicles pass each year...
...should also be a boon for Harvard’s stem cell initiatives, for it should stimulate our research programs. This excitement is somewhat attenuated, however in light of our university’s current science related woes. It is unfortunate that we have slowed construction of the science complex in Allston, which has pushed stem cell research into old laboratories unequipped for such advanced procedures. We have already begun to witness the fallout created by the Allston delay: a few prominent professors of Molecular and Cellular Biology, displaced by the recent changes, have threatened to leave the university...
Even worse than the incessant expression of inane private thoughts is the attempt to express complex private emotions in Facebook’s limited text boxes. Publicly paraded sentiments are inevitably devalued as a result of their superficial context. This inappropriateness is most apparent when the most personal emotions, such as those associated with death, begin to decorate public forums. When someone with a Facebook dies, his or her profile often remains active, either to commemorate that person’s life or because the family does not have the legal rights to close it. Messages such...
...ongoing study to collect blood and other information from people affected with a stroke and those not affected by a stroke.” Both the Ramonis (the two researchers are married) said using the Bayesian model was particularly important for predicting strokes because the disease is so complex and often results from interactions of many different factors. Marco Ramoni said his next step will be to analyze even more genes, hopefully one million by next year. “The more you see the more accurate the predictions will be,” Ramoni said, adding that he hoped...