This is Minecon - the global convention for the players and creators of Minecraft - a video game set in a world made of blocks that, in just a couple of years, has become a worldwide sensation.
Once they can manipulate atoms--which combine to form molecules, the building blocks of our natural world--scientists can create new building blocks that produce new materials with the exact properties they desire: smaller, stronger, tougher, lighter and more resilient than what has come before.
Within the clubby world of toy manufacturers, which stretches from the office blocks of east Tsim Sha Tsui in Hong Kong to the factories over the border, Smart Union was seen as one of the winners, a trusted manufacturer with none of the quality problems that came to terrify the buyers of Chinese products.
MTV's new campaign of social activism, Switch, kicked off around the world last month with 35 announcements in between large blocks of music videos and programs.
Bell Labs created building blocks of the modern world--the transistor, Unix, laser breakthroughs, cellular telephony.
After more than 25 years of dining professionally at the best restaurants in the old world, I thought I knew that the crucial building blocks of flavor are long-simmered meat or seafood stocks and deglazed pan juices.
People in a much larger region of the world can anticipate seeing a partial solar eclipse, in which the moon blocks only a fraction of the sun's disk.
The ground floor holds a theatre, lecture hall and kitchens where the arts of Italian cooking are taught to aspiring professional chefs, well-to-do food-lovers from around the world, and teams of managers encouraged to bond over chopping blocks and mixing bowls.
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Six blocks from the World Trade Centers, the managers of the two-year-old hotel in a 160-year-old building were preparing for a busy week.
It has been inaccurately described as the "ground zero mosque, " a ridiculous term considering it will be two blocks away from the site of the fallen World Trade Center towers.
The experience is meant to replicate the feeling of being a kid and sitting in your room with a bunch of blocks, dolls and toys and building a world in your imagination.
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The World Trade Center was located just blocks from the trading floors of the New York Stock Exchange and the operations of many Wall Street firms were severely interrupted by the attacks and their aftermath.
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, just three blocks from the World Trade Center, remained open throughout the day, though it shifted its electronic funds transfer and security transfer system to backup computers at the Federal Reserve Regional Bank in Richmond, Virginia.
The club had chronic financial problems, exacerbated by the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 on the World Trade Center four blocks to the north.
Kids all over the world will be able to play with and learn from the new building blocks of the 21st century.
Built in 2008 to showcase the Buddha's teaching, the pagoda is the world's largest unsupported dome structure, pieced together using an ancient technique of interlocking blocks.
Customer-development process, meanwhile, provides a real-world way of testing the business plan's various hypotheses, as written in the canvas' nine blocks.
From its inception, the World Bank, which occupies an imposing thirteen-story building off Pennsylvania Avenue, a few blocks west of the White House, has represented a peculiar blend of idealism and Realpolitik.
Today, too many kids in this city are living just a few El stops, sometimes even just a few blocks, from shiny skyscrapers and leafy parks and world-class museums and universities, yet all of that might as well be in a different state, even in a different continent.
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