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...unsuccessful. Against Burlington during our sophomore year in a game that I am sure Harvard baseball's Denny Doble remembers, Asa found himself alone under the basket with Belmont desperately trying to make a comeback. Asa tried to dunk but missed, smashing the ball off the back of the rim...
...need to panic, though. If the Crimson (1-1 overall, 0-0 Ivy) can merely manage to sink just a few more of those jumpers that have been clanging off the rim, today's game against St. Francis should push the squad over .500 once again...
Although they have taken shape in the shadow of Japan, the scientific showcases of the Pacific Rim look for inspiration to California's Silicon Valley, where academics and entrepreneurs race to take ideas out of the lab and into the marketplace. In Hong Kong researchers are already working on projects for clients ranging from a small machine-tool manufacturer in Nanjing, China, to big multinationals like U.S.-based Motorola. Taiwan's scientists have taken on everything from vaccines to satellite communications, and many harbor even grander dreams. "In a few years," confides an aspiring biotechnologist, "I hope to start...
...steel girders of a bridge. For if political leaders in such places as Taiwan and Hong Kong are sufficiently patient and nurture the seedling research efforts they have planted, the scientific breakthroughs of the 21st century -- and the market opportunities that follow -- may be born on the Pacific Rim...
They are principally congregating in three distinct areas: the Pacific Rim, including not only such thriving hubs as Tokyo and Hong Kong but China, / Vietnam and Cambodia as well; Latin America, especially Mexico, which, thanks to the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement last year, has become a potentially major market for U.S. goods and expertise; and Eastern Europe and countries of the former Soviet Union, where capitalism is breaking out all over, often in unpredictable ways. "Only an entrepreneurial student is willing to walk into so unstructured an environment," says consultant Hanigan. "You have the cowboys going...