In terms of innovation and creative impetus, Shanghai pales in comparison to New York, London, Paris and Milan, not to mention high-tech hubs like Silicon Valley, the Bay Area, Seattle, Boston, Austin and North Carolina's research triangle, all of which have much lower densities.

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Raleigh is a hub of North Carolina's "Research Triangle, " and in 2007, about 15% of its working immigrant population worked in professional, scientific and administrative occupations, according to the Census Bureau.

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And they have come here from advanced societies as engineers and scientists that fuel the knowledge-based revolution in the Silicon Valley of California, in the Research Triangle of North Carolina, along Route 128 in Massachusetts, in Austin, Texas, and across this great land.

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The strategy worked, we got cash flow immediately, and before long we won an award as one of the fastest growing companies in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.

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Members of Triangle Dads, a 150-member at-home fathers' group in North Carolina, have been known to escape to the shooting range together where, says co-founder James Kline of Apex, N.

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