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March 14th, 2012 - 1:00 pm § in America, The Ave Scene

Mulally, the Book

Remember Boeing?  The aircraft company founded in Seattle that moved to Chicago to please McDonald Douglas?  Oh yeh .. after Alan Mulally rebuilt the commercial aircraft division?   What happened to Mulally .. the Seattle guy?[...]

March 14th, 2012 - 11:15 am § in Misc.

More Evidence of North Korean Approaches to Apple

Celebrating the Apples in Arirang – Pyongyang North Korea September 2011. Eric Lafforgue reports from Pyonggang that all over the capital, the Arirang adverts (« Grand mass gymnastic and artistic performance », « Welcome to Pyongyang » and so on) warn the profane…Between August and Octob[...]

March 14th, 2012 - 10:51 am § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene, UW

NIH Budget Crunch

There is a petition to the White House to increase the NIH budget for FY 2013. This petition was started by Steve Metzler at Johns Hopkins. The current White House proposal calls for a flat NIH budget. After factoring in inflation, flat funding is an equivalent of a funding cut. Research is already [...]

March 14th, 2012 - 10:11 am § in UW

UW Rankings: UW Med Ranks at the top of BOTH Research and Primary Care!

Somebody should share this with Jim McDermott Our Congressman continues, as far as I know, to be utterly unaware of the prominence of the UW …. By KING 5 News http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46720469/ns/local_news-seattle_wa/ U.S. News & World Report has ranked several University of Washington[...]