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...gold. Consider Yokkaichi, Japan, a city of 300,000 people that is the premier place to make NAND flash memory, which is used in cell phones and MP3 players. Sandisk, a Milpitas, Calif.-based company that designs, manufactures and sells memory cards, moved its manufacturing base there from Manassas, Virginia a few years ago, partly to be closer to Toshiba, a company it partners with. Yokkaichi already had the infrastructure for both manufacturing and for the large R&D outfit that goes along with making memory cards. "By having it all in close proximity, it reduces overhead costs," says Sandisk...
With Harvard, Princeton, and University of Virginia out of the early admissions race, Yale and a handful of elite colleges are reporting skyrocketing early application numbers...
...next Sunday’s joint recruitment event with Princeton and the University of Virginia in Washington, D.C., an unprecedented 1,747 people have registered to attend, Fitzsimmons said...
This fall, Harvard joined with Princeton and the University of Virginia, which have also eliminated early application options, to do four joint-travel trips throughout November. Two of these trips have recently been completed, one in the South and another in the Midwest. This week, members of the admissions staff began recruiting trips to Virginia, West Virginia and the West Coast...
Hunters for the Hungry and other programs like it operate in nearly every U.S. state; in the past year, total pounds of food donated increased 30%. Rick Wilson founded his Maryland-based ministry, Farmers and Hunters Feeding the Hungry (FHFH), 10 years ago while on a hunting trip in Virginia, soon after he witnessed a poverty-stricken woman collecting road-kill in the woods. After soliciting tens of thousands of dollars in donations, Wilson and volunteers began providing what Wilson calls "God-given resources" to the homeless. The organization has since branched out to 26 states, with more than...