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...technology task force, whose report was released last month, urged the University to invest significantly in expanding engineering, applied science and emerging areas like stem cell research as part of Harvard’s campus of the future south of the Charles River. The one-million-square-foot science hub that will serve as the campus’ academic heart will feature cutting-edge laboratories intended to encourage cross-disciplinary research...
Harvard’s campus of the future will likely include between three and eight undergraduate Houses, a science hub and the public health and education schools, in addition to the business school, graduate housing and the athletic facilities that already occupy some of the University’s Allston land...
...academic focal point of the new campus will be a science hub of at least 1 million square feet, adding a third science “locus” to Cambridge and the University’s medical facilities in Longwood...
Scientists at Regeneron, based in New York, are tapping into the same feeding hub in the brain but through a different protein that is more closely related to leptin. Regeneron's agent, Axokine, fools the brain into thinking that the body's fat stores are well stocked, short-circuiting the need to eat. People who took Axokine and stayed on a low-calorie diet and exercise program lost twice as much weight as those who relied on diet and exercise alone...
When it opened to great fanfare just 11 months ago, terminal 2E at France's Charles de Gaulle airport was not only hailed as a stylish triumph of innovative yet practical design; the €750 million complex was supposed to transform Paris into "the most powerful hub in Europe, ahead of Frankfurt and London," boasted Air France CEO Jean-Cyril Spinetta. At full capacity, the terminal's twinned, 650-m-long main structures could handle 10 million passengers a year. Computerized baggage systems would transport luggage with minimal error, while travelers relaxed in the bright, spacious interiors of the tubular...