Word: hub
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...science complex—a core component of the University’s ambitious plans to build a new campus across the Charles River—was heralded as a hub for interdisciplinary science, originally due to be completed...
...arrive by Monday evening. When I stepped off of my train, Union Station was swarming with people, completely transformed from the last and only time I had ever been in Washington, D.C., four years ago. It was 9:40 PM, and the place was a hub of activity: women in floor-length coats, college-age kids milling around, and swarms of police guarding gates. I had made it. I had packed up my room at Harvard two days before, spent less than 24 hours at home, and now had made my dream of being in Washington D.C. to see this...
...world's most alluring airport hotel? Aesthetically, it's got the requisite wow factor, thanks to its sensuous chocolate-colored, polished-plaster foyer with a subtly lit, fiberglass staircase sweeping up into a spiral. And its location at Farnborough Airport in Hampshire, England - fast becoming the main European hub for private aviation - adds undeniable cachet. The hotel's opening in August was smartly timed too, pre-empting the centenary of the first officially recorded powered flight in Britain, made by Samuel Franklin Cody at Farnborough in October...
...cultivates these professional relationships with alumni events and job listings, he said. Harvardwood—financially independent of the University—attempts to promote a similar film community for students and alums. Founded in 1999 by Mia E. Riverton ’99, the organization provides a centralized hub through which its approximately 3000 members can forge new connections, facilitating the transition from the classroom to the studio. Harvardwood arranges conferences and seminars while compiling alumni contact information in an online directory, accessible to all members. Harvardwood 101—a yearly trip to Los Angeles over that takes...
...phrases like "accelerated knowledge transfer" and "interface message processor" visually interesting. The part about the Cuban Missile Crisis (illustrated with missile-shaped dots and arrows) is pretty cool because, well, it involves missiles. Apparently, the U.S. military developed a decentralized computer network so there wouldn't be a main hub for Russians to take down with a bomb. I never knew that before; now I can thank communism for creating the Internet...