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Dining Hall: Currier's dining hall features two standouts: a giant fountain centerpiece and a warm, friendly staff. You will often find yourself striking up a conversation with Patricia at the checker's desk or catching up with Amy M. Lester, dining hall manager. Dining hall hours go mercifully late and the doors often open early. Currier has also been called the crown jewel of HUDS, as food is characterized by excellent preparation and nice touches, such as cherry tomatoes and peeled cucumber slices...
...funding over the past five years, was founded in 2004 at the urging of prominent researchers including Professors Douglas A. Melton and David T. Scadden. Neither scientist responded to repeated requests for comment this week. Their Institute—which has served in recent years as a reliable fountain of important discoveries in stem cell biology—provides seed grants for researchers.With the Bush administration restricting government funding to only experiments performed on pre-existing stem cell lines, researchers saw an opportunity for Harvard to become a pioneer in stem cell biology and quickly pressed administrators...
...sides by the Pacific, the Casco - as it is affectionately known by locals - was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997 and served as the backdrop for much of the action in the latest James Bond film Quantum of Solace. The Casco's appeal is clear: grand cathedrals, fountain-filled plazas, timeworn cobblestone streets, even a bullet-scarred Presidential palace, which was attacked during the 1989 U.S. invasion. And now its mélange of Spanish, French, neoclassical and Caribbean architecture is being lovingly restored by farsighted investors. (See a special report on James Bond...
...Kennedy Center, six years ago it announced plans to completely reinvent its setting. The $650 million redesign, by the prominent architect Rafael Viñoly, envisioned a four-square-block fountain plaza built over that tangle of roadways, two sizable low-rise buildings that would face the center from across the new plaza, and a long boulevard of reflecting pools. The idea was to make the place more like part of an ensemble of pavilions, less like the lonely white palazzo that it remains - and will remain for some time. Two years after the expansion plan was unveiled...
...used the phrase. Paul McCulley, an economist and portfolio manager at bond giant Pimco, defines it like this: "If we all individually cut our spending in an attempt to increase individual savings, then our collective savings will paradoxically fall because one person's spending is another's income--the fountain from which savings flow." (See the top 10 financial collapses...