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Google, Microsoft and General Electric came to Santa Clara, Calif., last weekend, and all but begged graduates of one of the world's top engineering schools to work for them. Google spent $200,000 to be the lead sponsor of the four-day-long reunion of 3,500 alumni. Microsoft's research center in Hyderabad came calling. The CEO of GE, Jeff Immelt, already employs 1,500 graduates and says he needs more. Stanford? MIT? Harvard? Nope. This was a gathering of graduates of the Indian Institutes of Technology...
...weekend spent wowing international broadcast and print media, client-carriers and supplier-partners culminated in Sunday's event, as former TV news anchor Tom Brokaw hosted the 787 Dreamliner premiere from a stage set up in Boeing's 40-36 Building, a sprawling 10-sq. acre facility north of Seattle. In addition to the 15,000 gathered in Everett (wearing badges that read "Success Runs in the Family"), about 25,000 Boeing employees and retirees also watched the broadcast from the Seattle Seahawks' 50,000-seat stadium rented for the occasion. The event, broadcast to 45 countries in nine languages...
...tiny room at the back of a Somali restaurant near Port Elizabeth's harbor, Abdi Maolin, 26, has spent 11 months lying on a dirty mattress, eating kitchen leftovers and urinating through a tube attached to his bladder. Propping himself up on his elbows, Abdi digs out a police report that describes how on June 6 last year, six men stormed a Somali grocery store where Abdi and his elder brother Mohammed worked. One shot Mohammed in the forehead, killing him. When Abdi ran, another shot him in the spinal chord, paralyzing him from the chest down. Abdi says...
Since her appointment in February, Faust has spent her time learning the ropes of a large, decentralized University, and has already directed a number of staff appointments, wasting no time putting her stamp on the University's administration...
Faust has spent recent days working to replace the flood of congratulatory bouquets from friends and other university presidents in her office with books and modern art from the Fogg Museum to "perk the place up a bit," she said. She was set to enjoy a home-cooked meal by Tufts President Lawrence S. Bacow at his home on Monday night...