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...With 25 international telcom operators located here, Marseilles has become France's second-largest telecommunications center and the key hub for the southern European network. It also boasts research and production centers for the biotech and microelectronics industries - including the likes of Gemplus and STMicroelectronics - and has created local graduate schools to produce employees with the skills these companies need. The June 10 launch of the new high-speed TGV rail service - reducing travel time to Paris from four hours and 20 min. to three hours, and to Lyons from two hours and 45 min. to one hour...
...idea of traveling halfway around the world to starve yourself is, however you look at it, a little odd. To make hunger the theme of your vacation and pay good dollars for, well, nothing seems to be bordering on the plain loopy. Yet southern Thailand is becoming a hub for a growing number of professionals whose guilty affluence and/or search for the soulful drive them to seek a week or two of deprivation. On offer is bare-board living: fasting, yoga, meditation and?the ultimate in purification?twice daily cleansing of the colon...
Since her arrival, Phelan has transformed VES from the “parochial,” insular, and (at best) peripheral element in the University it was at the time of the report to what is now nationally recognized as an exceptional, vibrant hub of artistic and intellectual activity centered on undergraduates and committed to their needs...
...initial wave of Chinese emigrants that followed Zheng to Taiwan. When it opened in 1978, it was the first open celebration of Taiwan's separate history. Far from demonizing the Dutch, Taiwan's students now learn that they helped build schools and developed the island as a trading hub. Over in Beijing, at a special exhibition on Taiwan at the Revolutionary History Museum, the scenario goes more like this: the Dutch colonize, Zheng liberates and communism eventually triumphs. Says Xiao Yan, a 19-year-old visitor: "Taiwan will unite sooner or later, peacefully or through force...
Residents of Pforzheimer House briefly faced the disheartening prospect of losing a hub of the House social life yesterday, as rumors circulated that the House administration would partition the common room of the renowned "Belltower Suite." After a flurry of complaints, House Masters James J. McCarthy and M. Suzanne McCarthy wrote in an e-mail message that the room would stay untouched...