"The number of collapsed buildings this time is less, and most are old houses that were built long before, " added Wang Ruheng, dean of the school of civil engineering and architecture at Southwest University of Science and Technology in the city of Mianyang, in Sichuan province.

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Mr. Spiegelman is the Hughes Professor of English at Southern Methodist University, and editor-in-chief of the Southwest Review.

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Donald Olson and Thomas Lytle of Southwest Texas State University have calculated the tidal forces exerted on the earth by the sun, the moon and the planets.

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He also started the Morningside Center of Mathematics in Beijing in 1995 and the Center of Mathematical Science in Zhejiang University in Hangzhou--100 miles southwest of Shanghai and one of China's oldest universities--in 2002.

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Tuscaloosa, about 60 miles southwest of Birmingham, is home to the University of Alabama.

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He Jingjun, associate professor at Southwest University of Political Science and Law in Chongqing and commentator for The Beijing News, welcomes the execution decision as a "milestone in the protection of Chinese citizens overseas".

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