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...startups come out of MIT and stay in the community," said Jeanne Strain, Cambridge's director of economic development. "They train the scientists and create the technology that's put to work in local businesses...
...Strain sees the impact of Harvard as different than that of MIT, but as equally important in the world of start-up firms...
...their initial, bewildered diagnoses of the disease, doctors and immunologists have struggled with that question, asked by anguished patients and fellow scientists alike. Tuesday, a new piece of the ever-changing puzzle emerged. In Los Alamos, N.M., researchers have traced HIV to the 1930s using current structural analysis of strains of AIDS virus. The researchers drafted a genealogy of HIV and extracted key building blocks of the virus from each strain. Following the assumption that the mutations in the virus occurred at a roughly consistent pace, scientists used their supercomputer - the Nirvana is capable of performing 1 trillion computations each...
...income, skyrocketing consumer confidence and general expansion, has also remained notably unmarred by the specter of inflation. Wages have escaped the pressure usually placed on them by a booming economy, with increased productivity - some attributed to worker "flexibility" (read longer hours), some to technological advances - absorbing much of the strain caused by ever-fattening paychecks...
...results of this cultural struggle were announced by Zorn last week, and they're not encouraging for those who yearn to return to simpler times. NotComGuy lost. He snapped under the strain. "You kind of get addicted," he confessed, "to being in touch with everything at all times." Cut off from his e-mail, he felt alone, adrift. "You can exist without it, sure," he said. "You're just sort of living in a different milieu." Worse, the journalist learned he wasn't able to write coherent sentences without his word processor. "The new style becomes a scribbly, scratchy mess...