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VoiceObjects' claim to fame is not that it has reinvented voice-recognition applications but that the company has found a way to make voice applications easy to construct and easy to use. "We're like Henry Ford," says Land. "Ford didn't invent the automobile. He developed the assembly line, and that made the automobile affordable and accessible to a mass market...
...limits to the willingness of the international community to enforce sanctions. The E.U., composed of 27 member states, is Iran's biggest trading partner, accounting for 27.8% of the country's trade in 2006. Russia has a range of commercial contracts with Iran, among them an agreement to help construct Iran's first nuclear power plant at Bushehr. And energy-hungry China has not hesitated throughout the nuclear standoff to sign new oil and gas deals with Iran. Such economic realities have "more or less defined our range of motion" in imposing sanctions, concedes one former U.S. diplomat...
...most closely acquainted with VES, the concentration is not simply about artistic creation. “The faculty did not want an arts department,” says VES professor John R. Stilgoe. “The primary focus of the department is visual, but environmental means everything people construct from clothing to cosmetics to a large landscape.”IN THE STUDY OR THE STUDIO Founded in 1968, VES is “the curricular home of studio arts, photography, filmmaking, film studies, environmental studies, video art and performance, and critical theory,” according...
...orders of any potentially dangerous synthetic materials and instantly notify an oversight authority, such as the FBI. So, future students in Life Sciences 1a could hypothetically order certain harmless synthetic chromosomes for laboratory experiments, yet be unable to order dangerous versions or have access to the equipment to construct their own.A common criticism of synbio scientists has been their reliance on self-created regulatory systems in safety proposals. “Extreme Genetic Engineering,” a paper published by ETC in January, states, “Synthetic biologists are making a concerted effort to stave off government scrutiny...
...points to his work with Harvard in negotiating an agreement that allowed the University to construct student housing in the Riverside neighborhood while helping the city address its shortage of affordable housing. Under the deal, Harvard won permission to develop the area near Memorial Drive in exchange for donating 20 percent of the floor area—38 housing units—as moderate income housing. The University also agreed to build a small new park on the drive...