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...Meanwhile, even as the city builds a new NASCAR Hall of Fame - part of the 3.2 million square feet of new office space under construction uptown - the locally clustered motorsports industry it celebrates is feeling the pain of shrinking sponsorship dollars in the current economy. With close to 18,000 workers in the Charlotte area, motorsports have become a significant employer in the region. But gas prices (despite the recent declines, at one point last week they were the highest in the country) and home economics are driving down attendance at the tracks . "It's a scary time right...
Family and friends recalled Peter W. Cai ’10 as a compassionate and intelligent young man yesterday at a remembrance service in Memorial Church. Cai’s parents and girlfriend, Christine Li ’10, were among the many who spoke to the packed hall about their memories of the 20-year-old, who died from sudden cardiac arrest near Weld Boathouse on Saturday after completing the men’s race of the semiannual River Run. Quan Cai, Peter’s father, described walking with him in a stroller when he was a baby...
...Stevens a "stalwart friend" of the 100,000 Alaska natives. For three decades, Stevens made a point of channeling appropriations to fund projects that mattered most to the state's native communities. At the federation's annual meeting this past weekend - 2,000 native leaders in a massive convention hall in Anchorage - Stevens sent a video message apologizing for having to miss the meeting, and asked for the prayers of Alaska natives. At the end of his video, says Mitchell, the entire audience rose and gave Stevens a standing ovation. Their solidarity could be important in the election - Alaska natives...
More than 30 groups competed in the first annual i3 “Elevator Pitch” competition, held this past Saturday at Fong Auditorium in Boylston Hall. Nicholas J. Navarro ’10, MIT juniors Sean Liu and Cheuk Leung, and MIT management student Murali Govindaswamy won the first-place prize of $500 with their pitch of a new “wireless mesh technology” that would bring cheaper Internet access to the people of China. The technology that the team plans to establish in China was developed at MIT and has not yet been used...
...performance was followed by Kelsey M. Quigley ’09 and her band. Between performances, audience members competed in a trivia contest to identify famous female musicians, answering questions such as, “Who was the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?” The answer: Aretha Franklin in 1987. Although the lead performers were all women, many men came to see the Women, Rock! show, including Seth A. Pearce ’12. “It was the only reason I came,” Pearce said...