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Not only is it one of the city's most beautiful locales, but it is also considered among the most beautiful plazas in all of Spain.

Much of the daily and night life of Salamanca takes place in the Plaza Mayor.

Small boutiques and trinket shops line the inside of the Plaza and continue out onto the streets directly outside the walls.

Semana Santa is a tradition which is repeated year after year; a time when the devout and curious join together to participate in the procession and converge on the streets and squares which take on the ambience and mystique of an open air temple.

The high point of the procession is when the float exits and enters the respective church. This is the moment when art and religion seem merged into one.

The "costaleros" who carry the weight of the floats and their sculptured representations of the biblical scene are directed by the overseer or head of the group who ensure that the float is carried with maximum seriousness, grace and tradition.

college and university use of "Google Docs & Spreadsheets." 

What the engineering students in Berger's classes are doing goes well beyond that – so far beyond, in fact, that the National Science Foundation awarded Berger, an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, a three-year, $500,000 grant to assess the effectiveness of what he's calling "Higher Ed 2.0."

video of the class lectures (though the camera is turned off for the last 20 minutes, lest slackers be tempted to skip class altogether).

"solution videos," in which he demonstrates how to solve the fiendishly difficult mathematical and geometric problems

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Early signs of the shift abound. Walt Disney (DIS), investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, and scores of other companies use wikis, or group-editable Web pages, to turbo-charge collaboration. Other firms are using button-down social-networking services such as LinkedIn and Visible Path to dig up sales leads and hiring prospects from the collective contacts of colleagues. Corporate blogging is becoming nearly a cliché, as executives from Sun Microsystems (SUNW) chief executive Jonathan Schwartz to General Motors (GM) Vice-Chairman Bob Lutz post on their own blogs to communicate directly with customers.