Word: techs
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Should the scene of a mass murder be demolished or preserved in a commemorative way? Northern Illinois University, the site of the Valentine's Day slaughter of five students and the apparent suicide of the killer, is now facing the same question that Columbine and Virginia Tech earlier had to grapple with...
...Virginia Tech, officials met over several months to decide what to do with the two buildings where a gunman killed 32 students, and then himself. Simply tearing down Norris Hall, where most of the murders occurred, wasn't practical: It would have been a costly endeavor, and the building houses several high-tech labs and faculty offices, primarily for the university's department of engineering science and mechanics, one of the school's largest programs. The school closed the building for several months. Now, it plans to convert the building's second floor into a center for peace and violence...
...good economic sense, Black and Def begin introducing customers to their own low-budget versions of classic movies that the pair shoot in Black’s junkyard.Gondry often brings his whimsical, stylish approach to surreal story arcs. It’s his charming penchant for intensive theater tech that makes “Be Kind Rewind” an aesthetic success. Individual triumphs of innovation and elbow grease, the bootleg movies are the film’s highlights, sugarcoated with all of Gondry’s quirky techniques. Ghosts wield flashlights and wear saran-wrap, while large cheese pizzas...
...innovation. On that score, it's enjoying greater success. In 2006, 53% of group sales came from products launched in the previous three years. That's more than double the level of 2003. Last March, for instance, Philips--in partnership with Swarovski--launched the Active Crystals line, turning high-tech devices like memory sticks into high fashion. New items like that have helped triple sales at Philips' accessories unit in the past three years. "I've said many times, consumer electronics should be a lifestyle business; it should be a fashion business," says Rudy Provoost, the former CEO of Consumer...
...white liberals, concentrated in Travis County, home to the state capital and the gigantic University of Texas. Of the 254 counties in Texas, Travis was one of only two with a white majority that voted for John Kerry in the 2004 election. Its mix of college students, high-tech entrepreneurs clustered around Dell headquarters, and connoisseurs of a hot art scene makes this fertile territory for Obama's staple crops, namely the young and the wealthy...