Word: mecca
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Administrators have proposed several approaches. With the arrival of University President Lawrence H. Summers, plans for the creation of a biotech mecca have been receiving a great deal of attention. Even in its conceptualization phases, this seems to be the most costly road—it would involve building a completely new interdisciplinary science campus in Allston aimed at working with businesses to create a new Silicon Valley in Boston focused on biotechnology. Such proposals would associate the interests of our science departments with those of for-profit corporations to develop commercial advances. While some facets of this model...
...This mecca of gaudiness was founded by a man who spouts wisdom like, “If you go to a party, you should wear a tiara.” Paul Turnberg started this vintage jewelry store 40 years ago and is still behind the counter today, a cluster of rhinestones sparkling in his ear. Twentieth Century Ltd. may be unique in its glamorous genre. According to Turnberg, jewel-starved customers regularly come up from New York, where no such cavern of riches exists. It is not difficult to understand their devotion. Entering the store is like having magically fallen...
Coupled with the realization of developers that if they built it, biotech would come, the area became a mecca for biotechnology...
...this creates spectacular delays. After landing at noon, it took me three hours to get through immigration, sandwiched between Afghans and Indonesians, and another four hours before my bus left the airport. (Pilgrims are allowed to go only to Hajj sites). I reached my lodgings in Mecca at midnight: it took 12 hours to travel...
...weeks every year, Mecca becomes the most crowded city on earth. Set in a small valley surrounded by barren hills, the town lives on one trade, as reflected in an old local saying: "We sow no wheat or sorghum, the pilgrims are our crops." Scores of languages can be heard, and a multiplicity of cuisines is available: Arab, Indonesian, Turkish, Indian, Pakistani, Lebanese...