Word: toronto
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...long periods by trauma or chronic illness risk falling behind in school. Now robots are here to help. PEBBLES (Providing Education by Bringing Learning Environments to Students) have rolled into five U.S. pediatric centers --in Cleveland, Ohio; Baltimore, Md.; New Haven, Conn.; Miami; and Chicago. The robots, created by Toronto-based Telbotics, work in pairs. One with a 15-in. LCD screen for a face goes to school in the absent child's place. The other remains in the hospital, transmitting an image of the child's face to the classroom. Using a video-game-style controller, the child...
...Born in Toronto, Canada, Buckley earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Toronto in 1939, and did his post-graduate work at Harvard, where he earned his doctoral degree...
...wouldn't have it." Driving has never been an entirely logical exercise. Motorists make emotional decisions about when to pass, for example, and tend to think the lane next to them is going faster even when it isn't, according to research by Donald Redelmeier of the University of Toronto and Robert Tibshirani of Stanford University. And once in a jam, they're apt see themselves only as victims rather than part of the problem. There is, however, one big city where congestion charging has become an accepted part of life: Singapore. Granted, that city also accepts caning...
These days, Libeskind has commissions that include major additions to museums in London, Toronto, San Francisco and Denver; a university media center in Hong Kong; and a shopping and housing complex in Switzerland. That Denver, let alone the staid, pragmatic Beijing government that rules Hong Kong, is welcoming some of the most radical design ideas in the world is another sign of how much change is in the air. Libeskind is happy but not surprised. "People want to see something that reflects the excitement of life," he says. "If you look at how much is happening in the sciences...
...Instead of dressing the women’s hockey team, suit up the members of the Crimson sports board. Our top players would be among those that cover hockey. Junior Timothy Jackson (of Toronto, Canada!) will play goal. I, sophomore Dave Weinfeld of Montreal, will play center every shift. Of course, with this scenario, the “Crimson” would probably lose just as badly as BU did to the real Harvard women’s hockey team, but for the sake of parity, it makes the most sense...