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...that we could have never realized in the few scattered basement offices of the Yard.” But McLoughlin conceded that it will take a long time before SOCH (pronounced variously as “soak” and “soatch”) becomes the student hub it was designed to be. “I’m willing to give the SOCH three to four years to reach its potential,” he wrote. In the meantime, SOCH administrators have embarked on a campaign to woo students to the center by distributing coupons...
...involved in making associations and forming connections with people or things. (By comparison, over 50% of last year 's Super Bowl ads activated these regions.) The majority of this year 's commercials, on the other hand, predominantly activated anxiety regions of the brain, centered around the amygdala, the hub of our fear and emotional responses. "To me, that means these ads are going to be unsuccessful," says Freedman. "This group of ads as a whole had a violence associated with them that didn 't connect with people as being humorous or harmless. Something about them made people not feel that...
...faith seems well placed. Like its skyline, London's profile as a financial hub is rising. While the U.S.'s mammoth $13 trillion economy provides a bigger market in domestic shares listed on Wall Street's two major exchanges - nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange (n.y.s.e.) - Britain's more modest economy (it's the fifth largest in the world) has forced London to transform itself into a more internationally minded financial center to stay competitive. That transformation has become so successful lately that it has led to widespread speculation over whether London or New York City will become...
...shirts this time of year, but, after all, these folks earned it. For five days, more than a hundred volunteers at Ocean Breeze Elementary School sawed wood, dug holes, hammered nails and tightened bolts. Come nightfall, they still toiled, aided by a fire truck's flood-lights. At the hub of the commotion, sagging tool belt at waist and diagrams in hand, was Architect Robert Leathers, 45, the Johnny Appleseed of the swing set. Over the past 15 years, Leathers has helped thousands of volunteers erect nearly 350 playgrounds in 24 states, ranging from pocket-size parks...
...wares of Asia. Hong Kong prospered as China's entrept, and traders like Li & Fung had tight links to the Chinese market. But when the Communist Party took power in China in 1949, exports from the mainland slowed to a trickle. Hong Kong then became a formidable manufacturing hub in its own right, until the colony's growing wealth (per capita income is second only to Japan's in Asia) began to impede growth. By the 1970s, costs were rising so quickly that Hong Kong became uncompetitive compared with manufacturers in newly emerging economies elsewhere in Asia...