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...only been on this site since the mid-'60s," says Govan, "and compared to institutions in New York, we're still coming into our maturity. LACMA is a sleeping giant in the sense that its potential is huge...
...giant strides into Mead Hall and bellows, "I am Beowulf, and I'm here to kill your monster." That's how Hollywood turns a Danish warrior from an eighth-century Old English epic into a movie hero. Deep-voiced announcer: "He's big. He's bold. And he's boastful... He's Beowulf...
Microsoft knows a thing or two about the latter. The Seattle computer giant has six high-end research centers - three in the US, one in the UK (abutting the Cambridge University computer science department), and two newer outposts, in Beijing and Bangalore. The strategy is partly to go where the world's great universities are: the Beijing lab is placed squarely between Beijing and Tsinghua universities, the so-called Harvard and MIT of China. But part of it is also a recognition that as more countries move from developing to developed, with the amenities and job opportunities that used...
...popular than the Tower of London. It helps that Eden is visually stunning. Visitors descend into the former clay hole, now landscaped and studded with native vegetation, to arrive at the main attraction: two honeycombed domes, shaped like grapefruit halves, bubbling up from the base. These are the biomes, giant greenhouses that shelter the flora and mimic the climate of tropical rainforests and Mediterranean farms. Enter the humid and heated rainforest biome on a drizzly Cornish day, and you'll soon break a sweat worthy of Singapore...
India, ranked No. 48, has seen a bit of that hopscotching too. It is eighth in the world for quality of management schools yet 106th for quality of electricity supply. Bright minds, dim offices. The bigger story is that India trails that other unfurling economic giant: China finishes 34th overall, showing strength in areas like university-industry research collaboration (25th--see page 74) and national savings rate (7th) while remaining among the world's worst countries for things like the soundness of banks (128th). As for India, there is always discussion about the extent to which that country's bureaucratic...