Bloomberg BusinessWeek, May 13, 2013

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(1) John Hechinger, A Little College That's a Giant Online.
http://www.businessweek.com/arti ... hats-a-giant-online

Quote:

"Southern New Hampshire University’s quaint red-brick New England campus is home to 2,750 undergraduates, making it the size of some high schools. A casual visitor would never suspect that another 25,000 students are also enrolled online. That’s roughly how many are in the bachelor’s program at the University of California at Berkeley.

"The school’s management forecasts that revenue will reach $200 million in the next academic year

"The total price of Southern New Hampshire’s online bachelor’s degree, $38,000, isn’t cheap, but it’s far less than the $112,000—not including housing or meals—the university charges undergrads for four years at the brick-and-mortar college.

Note:
(a) summary underneath the title: Southern New Hampshire University profits from the Web
(b) Southern New Hampshire University
(a private[, not-for-profot] university in Manchester, New Hampshire; founded in 1933 by Harry A.B. Shapiro and Gertrude Crockett Shapiro (his wife))

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(2) Jeff Green, The touchscreen That Covers a Wall.
http://www.businessweek.com/arti ... -that-covers-a-wall

Note:
(a) summary underneath the title: The Bluescape can hold 160 acres of virtual space
(b) Haworth (company)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haworth_(company)
(Founded in 1948 by GW Haworth; a privately held, family-owned corporation headquartered in Holland, Michigan)
(c) For Obscura Digital, see Rodger Raderman
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodger_Raderman
(1968- ; American; Raderman’s second company, Obscura Digital, [was] founded in July 2000)
(d) For "CNN's Magic Wall," see Multi-Touch Collaboration Wall
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-Touch_Collaboration_Wall
(invented by invented by [Korean American] Jeff Han[, who in 2006 founded his New York City-based company Perceptive Pixel)

Election landscape: John King at the Magic Wall. YouTube.com, published by CNN on Oct 11, 2012.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEVSrKAb-LA
(e) "Using Bluescape, corporate and university clients can store often scattershot brainstorming sessions in perpetuity. Co-workers or classmates can add digital sticky notes"
(i) scattershot (adj; Furst Known Use 1951):
"broadly and often randomly inclusive : shotgun <scattershot advice> <scattershot planning>"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scattershot
(ii) post-it note
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-it_note
(or sticky note)
(iii) For "digital sticky note," go to Images.google.com.

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(3) Matthew Niederhauser, Paris, China.
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-05-09/paris-china

Note:
(a) summary in table of contents: A photo tour of the mainland's astonishing tributes to European and Egyptian architecture
(b) The Swiss and German surname Niederhauser (also Niederhäuser) is name of "places named Niederhaus or Niederhausen, denoting the lower of two dwellings or settlements or one in a low-lying position."

The German prefix "nieder" means "low" in English.
(c) The title "Paris, China" suggests Paris is part of China.
(d) "They [counterfeit paradises] are all bound up in what it means to live in ‘modern’ and ‘harmonious’ urban environments"

bound up (adj):
"closely involved or associated —usually used with with <his life was bound up with the town's history>"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bound%20up
(e) Holland Town, on the outskirts of Shanghai

Holland Village Shanghai 荷兰村上海 or

高桥新城- 荷兰风情小镇
www.hollandvillage.com.cn
is at 上海市浦东新区 高桥镇.
(f) "Broad Town, the corporate campus of Broad Air Conditioning"
* Borad Town 长沙市 远大城
** Broad Air Conditioning, Ltd 远大空调有限公司
, which is part of Broad Group 远大集团 (short for 远大科技集团有限公司, based in Beijing).
http//www.broad.com/
(g) "In Huizhou 广东省 惠州市, a slice of Hallstatt, a Unesco World Herritage site in Ausria."

Hallstatt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallstatt
(a village)

(h) "On the outskirts of Tianjin, Dynasty Wine is headquartered in Château Dynasty, modeled * * * after Château de Montaigne, home of 16th century philosopher Michel de Montaigne"
* Château de Montaigne
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_de_Montaigne
(This fortified castle dates to the 14th century)
** Michel de Montaigne
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_de_Montaigne
(1533-1592)
(i) "Château Chang Laffitte, a knockoff of Château de Maisons-Laffitte"
* Château Chang Laffitte 張拉菲特城堡, by developer ZHANG Yuchen, at 北京市昌平區北七家鎮
* Château de Maisons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_de_Maisons
(now Château de Maisons-Laffitte; a prime example of French baroque architecture; located at Maisons-Laffitte)
* Maisons-Laffitte
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maisons-Laffitte
(a commune; section 1 History)
* Maisons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maisons
(Maisons (French for "houses") is the name or part of the name of several communes in France)

(j) Florentia Village  佛罗伦萨小镇
www.florentiavillage.com/