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...products, centralized labs produced landmarks like the transistor, and every major corporation had such incubators. That changed over the past 20 years, as businesses started to shift their R.-and-D. money away from basic science in centralized labs (they would rely on universities for that) and toward design-and-development work done elsewhere--closer to production sites, by private research companies and eventually overseas...
...Bush is not "reframing reality to match his design," as you claimed. He is facing the reality of the worldwide threat from militant Islam, and he and the coalition forces are taking steps to counter it. He is not, as you said, "gambling his fortunes?and America's?on his faith in the power of leadership." He is demonstrating leadership in a world of craven politicians and fearful people. We Africans know something of terrorist oppression from personal experience and have not been taken in by the propaganda of the radical Islamists. Viva the U.S.! Tapumaneyi Jongwe Johannesburg...
...products, centralized labs produced landmarks like the transistor, and every major corporation had such incubators. That changed over the past 20 years, as businesses started to shift their R&D money away from basic science in centralized labs (they would rely on universities for that) and toward design-and-development work done elsewhere?closer to production sites, by private research companies and eventually overseas...
...hotel design goes, Singapore is typically associated with understatement and restraint. But then, most travelers haven't stayed at the Scarlet...
...delightful surprises that sometimes occur when people with neither experience nor inhibition try their hand at something new. Opened last month, the 84-room hotel?housed in an immaculately restored 1924 shophouse?is owned by first-time hotelier Geeson Lawadinata, and is the vision of first-time designer Michael Tan, who amazingly professes no formal design training. Not that you can tell. Extravagance is the order of the day, with Venetian crystal chandeliers, Victorian-style wall sconces, beaded lamps and gilded mirrors abounding in a space richly bathed in crimson, gold and black. Textures such as faux snakeskin, suede, silk...