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...Cambridge became the focal area of the nation’s astrophysical research, according to Irwin I. Shapiro, who was a researcher at MIT at the time of Sputnik’s launch...
...This small, impoverished town 37 miles (60 km) north of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province, has become the focal point of anguish over what Chinese now call "tofu schools," nearly 7,000 schoolhouses that collapsed in the quake while other buildings around them remained standing. The government says that nearly 300 children were killed in the Juyuan Middle School alone, and the anger of the parents of the victims is not diminishing, even though this past week the government reiterated its promises to investigate what happened and to include parents on a panel that will oversee the inquiry. Parents...
...Here, the symbolic function of the geisha emerges. The pale-faced woman, spinning a fan like a tape recorder while being showered with kilo upon kilo of white powder, unites sex, drugs, money, and music in a single image. The geisha, not the Wu-Tang Clan, is the focal point of this video: she is the ideal of a high-rolling hip-hop lifestyle, an ideal that will long outlive the rappers who made it famous. —Mark A. VanMiddlesworth
...Silk road gem and jade shop," the sign proudly states. Centrally located just down the street from the main mosque in Khotan, a dusty oasis town located in the vast Taklamakan Desert in China's far southwest, the shop is a focal point for the Muslim Uighurs who make up the majority of the local population. But though it is mid-morning, its gates are secured with heavy steel padlocks. Warning notices from the Public Security Bureau are pasted across the doors announcing that the business has been closed indefinitely. Until last month, this was one of the biggest private...
...thought it was going to rain,” Moseley said. “[Yesterday] it was a little colder a little windier. Overall it was pretty fair.” Next weekend, the team will travel south to New Jersey for the Ivy League Championship, the focal point of the men’s season. Penn will return to defend the title and the Crimson will look to improve on last year’s fifth-place finish. The Ancient Eight will gather to play the Ballyowen Golf Course in Hamburg, N.J., a links-style golf course known...