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Amazon sees biology trend in cloud computing
The future of biology, if Amazon has its way, will be in the cloud. The Seattle-based online retailer has generated buzz in the past few years with Amazon Web Services , its foray into cloud computing. Customers rent server space on a pay-as-you-go basis and get access to their data at any time via the Internet. It’s supposed to allow ... (Xconomy.Com)
Sharing story emboldens survivor
CAMBRIDGE — On a clear October evening in 1973, Jessica Stern and her younger sister were alone at the Concord home of a relative, doing their homework and waiting for their baby sitter to come pick them up. (By Maria Cramer, Globe Staff)
A lesson they learned
Marzuq Muhammad left the James P. Timilty Middle School in Roxbury 13 years ago and kept on going. (By Meghan E. Irons, Globe Staff)
What’s in a name? Plenty, say backers of renaming state colleges
Ryan Chamberlaind, a Salem State College senior, said he always felt a little out of place at national college conferences like Model United Nations. (By Sydney Lupkin, Globe Correspondent)
Private colleges vastly outspent public peers
Private research universities spent twice as much as their public counterparts to teach each student in the 2007-08 school year, widening a cost gap that can make private colleges unaffordable to students, without the help of financial aid. (Bloomberg News)
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