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...from Harvard and other universities. But Murray stressed that although they would be looking seriously into raising the user fee for professors, they do not wish to “disrupt” faculty research. Not everything is doom and gloom at the nanoscale level, professors said. CNS is set to upgrade its equipment soon, and Westervelt said that an outside committee recently recommended that CNS invest more in microfluidic systems in health-related areas, which are “rather inexpensive” compared to semiconductors. While SEAS currently covers only $500,000 of CNS’ $6.1 million...
...perhaps the most telling opening - in terms of the area's newfound cachet - is that of the Intercontinental West Lake, tel: (84-4) 6270 8888. The hotel has three smart restaurants - a French bistro, an Italian restaurant and one that serves Vietnamese-Chinese cuisine - as well as a bar set on its own island in the lake. Only the prices are hard to swallow...
Berger's eagerly anticipated new venture, Donald's, will be a four-story glass-and-open-air lakeside extravaganza, and is set to open later this summer with a wine room, oyster bar and multinational menu. It looks like the French Quarter's monopoly on fine dining has been lost. "Hanoi has grown so fast," agrees Berger. "We're now really the center...
...rooms and suites have their own balconies, and the hotel also lists "windows that open" as a delightful nostalgic feature. (Given Shanghai's notorious levels of air pollution, you might want to limit usage of these charming aspects of your room.) But while the accommodation may look like a set designer's dream of the Bund, you'll find all the modern bells and whistles among the thick carpets, opulent upholstery and somber panelling, including Internet-protocol phones and iPod-docking stations...
...there are counter-countermeasures to this kind of censorship. Sympathetic observers outside Iran have set up "proxies," servers that relay Twitter content into Iran through network addresses that haven't been blocked yet. When the Iranian authorities discover such a proxy, they block it too. It's an arms race crossed with whack-a-mole. Protesters are also organizing denial-of-service attacks against government websites - coordinated efforts to shut down their servers by flooding them with traffic...