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...world market for smart textiles is still small--about $550 million in revenue in 2008--but that could double by 2010, according to Massachusetts-based Venture Development Corp. The challenge is to fit applications to the market, says Lutz Walter, R&D manager at Euratex, a group representing the $326 billion European clothing-and-textile industry. "In the medical field, there's high value added. But to be approved as devices takes 10 years," says Walter. "In other areas, it's price: How much are consumers going to be willing to pay for a smart jogging shirt...
...succession. When people move away as part of normal neighborhood turnover, the people who move in are generally more affluent. Community advocates may argue that succession is just another form of exclusion - if low-income people can't afford to move in - but, still, it doesn't exactly fit the popular perception of individuals being forced from their homes...
...study found that while gentrification did not necessarily push out original residents, it did create neighborhoods that middle-class minorities moved to. The addition of white college graduates, especially those under 40 without children, was a hallmark of gentrifying neighborhoods - that much fit the conventional wisdom - but so was the influx of college-educated blacks and Hispanics, who moved to gentrifying neighborhoods more often than they to did similar, more static areas. Two other groups tended to move more often into upwardly mobile neighborhoods as well: 40-to-60-year-old Hispanics without a high-school degree, and similarly uneducated...
...also been praised for his commitment to seeking variety and fit in students' career prospects, especially given the large fraction of students who participate in on-campus recruiting programs for finance and consulting jobs each year. (A Crimson survey last month revealed that 39 percent of those graduating from the Class of 2008 will be taking jobs in these sectors...
...illustrate the range of differences that exist within Christianity. But he also expressed outrage at Obama's assertion that individuals can be moral without being religious. "He oughta read the Bible," said Dobson. Obama, he charged, was "deliberately distorting the traditional understanding of the Bible to fit his own worldview...