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...administrative director of the life sciences. Porter said the labs will be designed to facilitate interdisciplinary stem cell research with the intention to ensure that all aspects of the research can take place in one building. “They’re looking to do sort of soup to nuts, one stop shopping in one place,” Porter said. The new science labs could contribute as many as 1,000 new jobs to the local economy, Spiegelman added. Spiegelman also hinted that an announcement of an architect for the science labs could be announced within the next...
...alienation. Besides, the prevalence of the positive on Facebook.com is getting old. I don’t care that Suzy Smith’s primary interest is “chilling with all her favorite girls,” that her favorite book is “Chicken Soup for the Girlfriend’s Soul” (yes, that is a real title), or that her favorite quote is “everything happens for a reason.” I’d rather read that she has a hatred of mullets or that she gags...
What would the most advanced, most forward-looking, most self-assured country in history do without its periodic crises of confidence? In 1957 the Soviets put a tin can into space, and the U.S. thought the sky was falling. In the 1980s we began crying into our soup because Sony was selling so many nifty Trinitrons. "American decline" was all the fashion until the vaunted Japanese model of tight organization and industrial planning took a nosedive and a bunch of twentysomething Americans tinkering in their garages created untold wealth and took over the world...
...towns like al-Bireh, Hamas has built popular support by providing a disciplined alternative to Fatah, which is seen by many Palestinians as corrupt, inefficient and unable to run a garbage collection service, let alone negotiate with Israel. Hamas has long run its own medical clinics, schools and soup kitchens for the poor-mostly in the Gaza Strip, its stronghold. In last year's local elections, Palestinian voters gravitated toward Hamas because of its reputation for having "members with a clean record," as Mayor Hamayel puts it, in a reference to Fatah's many corruption-tainted officials. Residents of towns...
...pits around 30 professional steel bands of 60 to 120 members against each other in front of a crowd of 15,000. Fans sing, cheer their favorite bands, and catch up with friends and neighbors while picnicking on pelau (a rice and peas mixture), macaroni pie, souse (a spicy soup made from either pigs' or chickens' feet), jerk chicken and plenty of local beer and rum drinks...