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Steel-and-glass office buildings and sprawling corporate campuses are taking shape to handle the flood of new businesses and employees. Major players like IBM, Oracle and Intel are here, as are promising start-ups. At Sony World and Bose, techies are landing lucrative service gigs. It may sound like yesterday's Silicon Valley, but it's very much the present--in the high-tech mecca of Bangalore...
...views the arts. According to Yannatos, the university is sympathetic, but it views the arts as solely extracurricular. With an increased emphasis on the arts, Yannatos believes that he could fully tap the students’ rich musical talent, which is instead partially diverted by a flood of midterms and research papers. The notes may not write or play themselves, but with the help of Yannatos, they step off the page and into the concert hall...
...pour out, slowing down invading bacteria, and prepares the way for other faraway immune defenders to easily enter the fray. Meanwhile, another group of sentinels, called macrophages, begin an immediate counterattack and release more chemicals, called cytokines, which signal for reinforcements. Soon, wave after wave of immune cells flood the site, destroying pathogens and damaged tissue alike - there's no carrying the wounded off the battlefield in this war. (No wonder the ancient Romans likened inflammation to being on fire...
They thumb through pages of posters, hoping to find that vintage Animal House print that will stand out amidst the flood of reissues. For many, dorm room decorating is a chance to reinvent oneself—a time to break away from the pink sheets and stuffed animal smorgasbords of one’s past and inform the world, or at least the entryway, about the complex enigma they are so privileged to have in their midst...
...mail virus which tore through the Internet at a record pace last month continued to flood Harvard in-boxes this week, though its spread has slowed in recent days...