For the author, an African bar is an open-air laboratory crammed with the educated jobless, an inventive forum for debate.

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Matsumoto will continue his work as research fellow of the Network Applied Communication Laboratory, an open source systems integrator company in Shimane Prefecture, Japan.

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Since they had no open positions, they forwarded his application to the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory in Cleveland where he began working in March 1955.

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It was shown by Maurice Wilkins of King's College to James Watson at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, who said "my mouth fell open and my pulse began to race".

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Kepler made further inroads in supercomputing, as Oak Ridge National Laboratory announced that it had completed Titan, the world's fastest open-science supercomputer.

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It's traditional to open up cans of peanuts and pass them around to the team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory responsible for overseeing the landing of the rover, said David Oh, lead flight director for the mission, earlier this week.

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So, should I open the envelope from Rockefeller, where my apo E status was determined by Dr. Breslow's laboratory as part of a research project?

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