Besides sports, what makes universities known?

There are over two hundred major universities in the United States. That's an awful lot of schools for people to sort in their minds and really get an image of what they are. Other than the area of sports. That's easy: who's hot and has had a successful football and/or basketball program for a long time...and who's not. but outside the stadium and the arena, it gets a bit tricky. WHAT SCHOOLS DO YOU THINK HAVE HIGH VISIBILITY AND AWARENESS DUE TO FACTORS ASIDE FROM ATHLETICS? Which allows them to have an image, setting them apart from good old Generic U. The most evocative..... Can you name some of those schools and the images they convey. I'll give my examples: • Harvard: the ultimate academic institution; oldest, most prestige • Yale: right there at the top, too; a place where many leaders have gone to college • Viriginia: Mr. Jefferson's university • Chicago: the ultimate no nonsense, academically oriented university • Stanford: Ivy League quality with Calif. location, but with a more conservative bent • Cal: a radical past, a constant history and present as the standard for public education • Michigan: dripping in tradition, possibly the most complete university in the land. the model used for what the majority of US state universities used for their development • Texas: Dominant institution in a state that likes to dominate. Endowment from oil $$$ coming out of its ears! • Arizona State: PARTY!!!!! • Notre Dame: the aura of the ultimate Catholic institution • Colorado: foothill location is incomparable • Ole Miss: ancient history, but integrating the place is still in our consciousness • Penn State: best northeast example of major state university • Duke: academic super star and best university in the South; strong northeast connection •*Princeton: Ivy League preppy, WASPish and old $$$ • Nebraska: no closer relationship between state and university • Cornell: high above Cayuhoga's waters • Texas A&M: anybody more loyal than an Aggie? Twelvth Man school.>

Hows Your City During The Summer

Here in Buffalo, people are always outside enjoying summer. Downtown and other areas are filled with people on the streets and by the water. Its weird to think of Buffalo as one of the top cities where people own pools. But its true, everyone has one. People love the summer here and i was wondering what other cities throughout the country was like during the summer? Please post some pics or feel free to tell me something great about your city during the summer, thanks.>

Should it be more difficult to join SSC?

I think accounts should be activated/deactivated by the Mod's >

Happy America Day!

**Happy America Day** Looks like Americans arent the only ones celebrating the American independance day, i just found this picture on a danish news site... Over 5000 people in Denmark went to "Rebild Bakker" (Rebild Hills) today to help celebrate the American independance day pretty cool... Anyway, have an awesome day today!! EDIT: Found some more pics >

2006 Fortune 500 and 1000

The Fortune 500 and Fortune 1000 Lists for 2006 are out.. California Fortune 500 and 1000 Companies, 2006 Los Angeles Metro Area Fortune 500 Cos. 20 Fortune 1000 Cos. 42 7 Walt Disney 63 31,944.0 Burbank 8 Northrop Grumman 67 30,721.0 Los Angeles 9 Ingram Micro 72 28,808.3 Santa Ana 11 Countrywide Financial 122 18,536.9 Calabasas 12 Occidental Petroleum 133 16,286.0 Los Angeles 14 Computer Sciences 141 15,849.1 El Segundo 16 DIRECTV Group 168 13,164.5 El Segundo 17 Amgen 181 12,430.0 Thousand Oaks 18 Health Net 191 11,940.5 Woodland Hills 19 Edison International 194 11,852.0 Rosemead 26 KB Home 254 9,441.7 Los Angeles 28 First American Corp. 284 8,061.8 Santa Ana 34 Dole Food 365 5,870.6 Westlake Village 37 Jacobs Engineering Grp. 386 5,635.0 Pasadena 38 Avery Dennison 393 5,496.3 Pasadena 40 Mattel 416 5,179.0 El Segundo 43 Pacific Life 441 4,840.4 Newport Beach 44 Ryland Group 444 4,817.6 Calabasas 48 Hilton Hotels 464 4,437.0 Beverly Hills 52 Standard Pacific 493 4,011.4 Irvine 55 Gateway 508 3,854.1 Irvine 56 Western Digital 525 3,638.8 Lake Forest 58 Stater Bros. Holdings 558 3,372.2 Colton 59 Reliance Steel & Alum. 559 3,370.7 Los Angeles 64 DaVita 605 3,072.4 El Segundo 67 Mercury General 618 2,991.9 Los Angeles 69 CB Richard Ellis Group 630 2,910.6 El Segundo 70 Unified Western Grocers 634 2,866.9 Commerce 71 Broadcom 653 2,670.8 Irvine 73 Fleetwood Enterprises 662 2,623.5 Riverside 77 Beckman Coulter 700 2,443.8 Fullerton 78 New Century Financial 701 2,443.1 Irvine 80 Allergan 734 2,319.2 Irvine 89 Univision Communications 821 1,952.5 Los Angeles 94 William Lyon Homes 850 1,856.4 Newport Beach 95 Guitar Center 862 1,782.5 Westlake Village 96 Quiksilver 863 1,780.9 Huntington Beach 97 Indymac Bancorp 869 1,765.3 Pasadena 101 Molina Healthcare 916 1,650.1 Long Beach 102 Watson Pharmaceuticals 917 1,646.2 Corona 103 Earle M. Jorgensen 927 1,608.9 Lynwood 109 Apria Healthcare Group 979 1,474.1 Lake Forest San Diego Metro Area Fortune 500 Cos. 3 Fortune 1000 Cos. 5 21 Sempra Energy 197 11,737.0 San Diego 29 Science Applications Intl. 285 8,022.0 San Diego 36 Qualcomm 381 5,673.0 San Diego 76 Jack in the Box 692 2,507.2 San Diego 87 Petco Animal Supplies 810 1,996.1 San Diego San Francisco Bay Area Fortune 500 Cos. 29 Fortune 1000 Cos. 62 1 Chevron 4 189,481.0 San Ramon 2 Hewlett-Packard 11 86,696.0 Palo Alto 3 McKesson 16 80,514.6 San Francisco 4 Wells Fargo 46 40,407.0 San Francisco 5 Intel 49 38,826.0 Santa Clara 6 Safeway 50 38,416.0 Pleasanton 10 Cisco Systems 83 24,801.0 San Jose 13 Gap 139 16,023.0 San Francisco 15 Apple Computer 159 13,931.0 Cupertino 20 Oracle 196 11,799.0 Redwood City 22 Sanmina-SCI 198 11,734.7 San Jose 23 PG&E Corp. 200 11,703.0 San Francisco 24 Sun Microsystems 211 11,070.0 Santa Clara 25 Solectron 227 10,456.3 Milpitas 27 Calpine 275 8,384.7 San Jose 30 Applied Materials 317 6,991.8 Santa Clara 31 Agilent Technologies 319 6,935.0 Palo Alto 32 Golden West Financial 326 6,662.0 Oakland 33 Google 353 6,138.6 Mountain View 35 Advanced Micro Devices 367 5,847.6 Sunnyvale 39 Yahoo 412 5,257.7 Sunnyvale 41 Charles Schwab 418 5,151.0 San Francisco 42 Ross Stores 431 4,944.2 Pleasanton 45 Longs Drug Stores 450 4,670.3 Walnut Creek 46 eBay 458 4,552.4 San Jose 47 Clorox 460 4,475.0 Oakland 49 Franklin Resources 474 4,310.1 San Mateo 50 CNF 481 4,169.6 San Mateo 51 Levi Strauss 484 4,125.2 San Francisco 53 URS 503 3,917.6 San Francisco 54 Maxtor 507 3,890.2 Milpitas 57 Williams-Sonoma 537 3,538.9 San Francisco 60 Robert Half Intl. 562 3,338.4 Menlo Park 61 Del Monte Foods 581 3,209.0 San Francisco 62 Bell Microproducts 584 3,193.8 San Jose 63 Electronic Arts 594 3,129.0 Redwood City 65 UTStarcom 613 3,006.7 Alameda 66 Knight-Ridder 614 3,004.0 San Jose 68 Building Materials Holding 629 2,912.2 San Francisco 72 Granite Construction 657 2,641.4 Watsonville 74 ABM Industries 664 2,612.5 San Francisco 75 Symantec 672 2,582.8 Cupertino 79 Nvidia 718 2,375.7 Santa Clara 81 SanDisk 737 2,306.1 Sunnyvale 82 Intuit 779 2,098.5 Mountain View 83 KLA-Tencor 780 2,085.2 San Jose 84 Juniper Networks 789 2,064.0 Sunnyvale 85 Gilead Sciences 801 2,028.4 Foster City 86 Spansion 806 2,002.8 Sunnyvale 88 Adobe Systems 817 1,966.3 San Jose 90 Chiron 828 1,919.7 Emeryville 91 LSI Logic 829 1,919.3 Milpitas 92 National Semiconductor 830 1,913.1 Santa Clara 93 Pacer International 848 1,860.1 Concord 98 Atmel 905 1,675.7 San Jose 99 Maxim Integrated Products 907 1,671.7 Sunnyvale 100 VeriSign 912 1,661.2 Mountain View 104 Network Appliance 929 1,598.1 Sunnyvale 105 Xilinx 938 1,573.2 San Jose 107 Autodesk 960 1,523.2 San Rafael 108 Lam Research 969 1,502.5 Fremont 110 Siebel Systems 999 1,429.1 San Mateo Other Regions... 106 CKE Restaurants 952 1,531.7 Carpinteria Just Click on Your State(s) and you can determine how many there are for your city and metro.. http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortu.../states/A.html>

The next real estate boom

http://money.cnn.com/2006/07/07/tech...ex.htm?cnn=yes The article talks about "New Villages". Not exactly relevant when it comes to humongous skyscrapers and urbanity(well, maybe just a tiny bit) but it does talk about the larger trend of people actually living in dense areas, hopefully fueling the next wave of skyscraper construction in the United States.>

Happy Birthday to the United States of America (1776-2006)

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