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The project in question is a plan to build an entire cultural district in Abu Dhabi, including a futuristic arts center and a branch of France's Louvre Museum that will consist of a huge, white dome riddled with skylights over a network of man-made islands on the edge of the Persian Gulf.
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The decision could also be a turning point for Spring Branch Medical Center, a for-profit hospital in Houston.
WSJ: Ruling Underscores Hospitals' Strategy
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However, the faculty listing for the Center includes one individual who is also an employee of the Nizhny Novgorod Branch of Scientific Technical Center (STC) Atlas.
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Overall, Johnson Controls with its advanced product portfolio, manufacturing facilities at Guangzhou and Wuxi, an engineering center at Wuxi and 37 branch offices providing servicing, is well-positioned to maintain its leadership position in the building market of China.
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The National Center for Education Statistics, a branch of the U.S. Department of Education, also found that the total enrollment in distance learning courses across all post-secondary degree-granting institutions roughly doubled -- from 754, 000 to 1.6 million -- from 1995 to 1997-98.
CNN: fyi.com - Study: Public higher education embracing virtual classrooms
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Dr. VIRGINIA BURKETT (Chief, Forest Ecology Branch, National Wetlands Research Center, U.S. Geological Survey): For example, where we have artificial fill, the subsidence rates are much more rapid than they are on the natural levee deposits.
NPR: Satellite Imagery Shows a Sinking New Orleans
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Pinchas Halpern, chair of the emergency department at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, and Shmuel Shapira, a director of programs at Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem who previously led the trauma branch of the Israel Defense Forces Medical Corps, spent time at MGH as part of a years-long mission that takes them around the world sharing their experience with medical responses to terrorist bombings.
FORBES: Boston Marathon Bombings Show Need To Learn From Others Who Are Meeting The Challenge
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The Center calls for an immediate moratorium on further decontrol actions pending thorough executive and legislative branch reviews of the present procedures and consideration of statutorily mandated safeguards needed to protect against ill-advised initiatives in this area.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center for Security Policy | A New Technology Transfer Fiasco Demands A Time-Out On Decontrol Decisions
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He gave large sums to the local Chabad, a branch of the Hasidic Chabad-Lubavitchers, for the construction of a new center.
NEWYORKER: The Brass Ring