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...first international edition in the same language as the review’s flagship. The launch of the new edition comes less than a year after Harvard Business School opened the India Research Center in Mumbai—joining centers in Buenos Aires, Paris, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Silicon Valley, Calif. Harvard’s heightened focus on India comes as the world’s second most populous country experiences rapid growth. Its real gross domestic product—a common measure of the size of a country’s economy—expanded at a 7.6 percent...
...restoration of the campus’s Alumnae Valley—for the last several years a parking lot—to its former natural landscape and function as part of a natural hydrological system. The firm removed tons of toxic soil and raised the entire level of the valley six feet. Van Valkenburgh Associates has completed four projects at Wellesley to date, and six projects are currently underway. The award judges, comprised of the society’s members, praised Van Valkenburgh’s design for its “excellent planning and execution...
...could be a form of Chinese water torture. As the title character of Mrs Porter and the Rock, about a widowed suburbanite dragged by her son to Uluru, complains: "Nothing had happened." But those who relax into Malouf's dreamy prose, the rewards are pleasurable and profound. In The Valley of Lagoons, we enter the stillness of the Gulf country through the consciousness of a 16-year-old boy to discover "an interweaving of close but distant voices so dense that they become one." The sensual motion of a swimmer is watched so intensely by a woman undergoing chemotherapy...
...voip (voice over Internet protocol) phone calls. But that's exactly what the village's 800 or so inhabitants have been doing - thanks to a wireless, solar-powered communications system installed in the Ruwenzori mountains by Inveneo, a San Francisco nonprofit. Inveneo was launched in 2004 by three Silicon Valley veterans - Mark Summer, 36; Kristin Peterson, 45; and Bob Marsh, 59 - who share a passion for high tech and an interest in the developing world. They had done enough volunteer work overseas to see how wireless communications might improve and save lives - through phone calls to health clinics, fast reporting...
...supplement companies dot the terrain alongside I-15 snaking through Salt Lake City, Utah, generating $4 billion in annual sales--four times the revenue of the state's more famous ski trade. The herbal health business is so prevalent in this area that it has been nicknamed Cellulose Valley, after the primary component of green plants...