Word: consortia
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...Every department needs leadership if the department is going to go from outstanding to more outstanding," said Stephen Waxman, Yale's current neurology chair, who also praised Hafler's work in organizing international research consortia. "Among people who are really good scientists, very few have the innate ability to build programs and collaborations and cooperative efforts, and he has that ability...
...Internet as it exists today is far from shockproof. It has been built by independent consortia of private telecom companies and investors, and network design has been driven by economics. Reliability is important, of course, but intercontinental cable systems can cost billions of dollars, so they tend to connect to countries where demand is greatest and they often lack costly parallel backup circuits that would be underused most of the time. Vulnerabilities exist, and the recent quake found a chink in the armor. It struck in the Luzon Strait south of Taiwan, an area that has an unusual concentration...