Private Syracuse University, which sits on a hill overlooking the city (and whose 50, 000-seat Carrier Dome is the city's best known landmark), is ramping up a 15-year-old program aimed at high-tech company incubation.

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He had cleverly created a stir by soliciting pledges from normal people to build a dome over the entire city of Chicago that would be deployed during the cold months of winter.

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Another corralled several thousand supporters of building a dome over Chicago to keep the city warm all year.

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Once mocked as the "Ain'ts" -- it took the Saints more than four decades to reach the Super Bowl -- the history of the team and its stadium, the imposing Super Dome, is inextricably linked with the city's emotions.

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The same day, Israel moved a battery of its new "Iron Dome" rocket defense system to the northern city of Haifa, which was battered by Hezbollah rocket fire in the 2006 war.

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Seventeen years later they again vied for the city's most prestigious commission--the dome.

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Mercedes-Benz has left no camera angle to chance in its attempt to ensure saturation coverage of its sponsorship of the Super Dome and its embrace of the Big Easy that has included using the city as the location for the Super Bowl ad for the CLA Class.

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Last year, Indianapolis hosted the game and though it was played inside a dome, the 40-degree weather during the week didn't stop the city from earning rave reviews.

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On its Twitter feed, the Israeli military said 17 rockets fired from Gaza had been successfully intercepted by Israel's "Iron Dome" missile defence system on Wednesday, but one had got through and hit a "southern Israeli city".

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