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...memory of the ill-fated ship is being asked to do more than bring in tourists, however. "It's all to do with breaking down barriers", says Brian Ambrose, Chairman of the Titanic Foundation, the company overseeing the TSP. "We want to change Belfast's image abroad with a landmark building, but also restore local pride." The Titanic Quarter's promotional literature describes the ship as the pinnacle moment of Belfast's industrial heyday - when it was launched in 1911, it was the largest moveable man-made object on the planet. The fact that this achievement was soon eclipsed...
...peers. “The field of cancer research has lost one of its most passionate, committed and creative warriors,” Edward Benz Jr., president of the Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Institute for Cancer Research, said in a statement. In 1971, Folkman published what would become a landmark paper about the relationship between tumors and blood supply. Folkman persisted in the face of skepticism and eventually founded the field of angiogenesis, the study of the growth of new blood vessels. This led to a new approach to cancer treatment, in which the blood supply of tumors is targeted...
...visual effects teams even took care that the collapsing buildings in the film were older-looking structures that did not evoke the style of the structures that were attacked six years earlier." You're right, visual effects team. It doesn't bother a New Yorker to see a gorgeous landmark like the Woolworth or Empire State Building destroyed. Those things are too old anyway...
...huge unpopularity on the street and his sagging credibility among Arab leaders he counts as allies. Part of the problem was the Administration's increasingly mixed message, amplified by the intense media coverage of his trip. For example, in Dubai he gave what the White House billed as a landmark speech calling for "democratic freedom in the Middle East." But during his last stop in Sharm el-Sheikh Wednesday, he lauded President Hosni Mubarak as an experienced, valued strategic partner for regional peace and security and made no mention of Cairo's ongoing crackdown on opponents and critics...
...best science is often done at the interface of disciplines,” said Stephanie Shore, a senior lecturer in physiology at the school, who said that nearly half of her colleagues work over three miles away at the Landmark Center. “You often make progress in science not so much by staying in your own laboratory, in doing what you always do, but by talking to other people who know different things than...