Bionic Humans in Slow Motion
The News Review:
- Bionic Humans in Slow Motion
- Ghent: proud to sit pretty
- Getting back on the map.(Manchester)
- Siemens, Huawei open TD-SCDMA venture
- The international service of Czech Radio
Bionic Humans in Slow Motion
Wired News – Mar 19, 2005
Anthony Atala, director of the tissue engineering program and the urology department at the. Several labs are looking at ways to replace organs with the patients’ own urologic tissue by taking small biopsies, and growing the cells in the laboratory before reintroducing them back to the body, Atala said.
Ghent: proud to sit pretty
Telegraph.co.uk – Mar 19, 2005
Charles V was born in Ghent in 1500 and at various times during his lifetime of almost unimaginable power, was Holy Roman Emperor and absolute ruler of the Low Countries, the county of Burgundy, Spain, Italy and the whole of Spanish America. Most cities would pay blind respect to such a home-grown warrior but when the great man tried to raise their taxes in order to fund a few more armies, its craftsmen went on general strike and its unskilled workforce took even more dramatic umbrage by tearing to shreds of leather a recently bestowed charter – and swallowing the remnants to make sure they could never again be joined together. Enraged, Charles rode into town and forced the local patricians to beg for mercy, wearing nothing but white shirts with nooses round their necks. Humiliated? Not a bit of it. Since that day, the denizens of Ghent have proudly called themselves “stroppendragers” (“noose wearers”) and don the rope every year for the opening procession of the city’s increasingly spectacular annual festivities.
Getting back on the map.(Manchester)
Free with registration – Estates Gazette – AccessMyLibrary.com – Mar 19, 2005
By David Thame The BBC and the Bank of New York have both chosen Manchester. Who will be next? Until this year, Manchester’s reputation for winning new occupiers had been fairly dismal. While the city has done well at nurturing its home-grown businesses – the big law firms, GUS,N Brown and the Co-Op are in the vanguard – it has not had much effect in the national or international relocation markets. When new occupiers do arrive, they rarely take prime city-centre space. Ticketmaster, for example, signed for 25,000 sq ft in Bruntwood’s City Cube in 2002, and the General Medical Council took 46,000 sq ft at Bruntwood’sSt James’s Building. Both chose the city centre but opted for more value for money premises. Michelin arrived in 2003, Exxon-Mobil in 2001 and Avis in 1999.
Siemens, Huawei open TD-SCDMA venture
chinadaily.com.cn – Mar 19, 2005
The US$100 million joint venture is expected to give a major boost to TD-SCDMA, which is catching up with Europe-backed WCDMA and US-backed CDMA 2000. The joint venture, TD Tech Ltd, is registered in Hong Kong with Siemens taking a 51 per cent stake while Huawei owns the remainder. Karl-Christoph Caselitz, president of Mobile Networks at Siemens Communications Group, said TD-SCDMA “is ready for market. “With TD Tech, we believe we will make TD-SCDMA a success in China,” Caselitz said.
The international service of Czech Radio
radio.cz – Mar 19, 2005
Fifteen years agoflower shops and stalls had little to offer in terms of variety, now theyare bursting with both home grown and imported blooms. But, above all,they are offering creative flower arrangements. While in 1994 Czechs spent3 billion crowns on flowers in 2004 the overall sales figure reached 8billion crowns. Flower shop assistants say the biggest sales take place on Valentines Dayand Mothering Sunday, but that many Czechs have now got into the habit ofbuying fresh flowers regularly to brighten up their homes or simply say"I love you".