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Science in Japan 日本的科学界 Where rats and robots play 才学通修 Japanese science needs a shake-up. A new institute in Okinawa may provide it 日本的科学界需要一场变革。在冲绳，一所新的学院为这一变革提供了条件。 THINK of a university and what comes to mind may be the cloistered calm of Oxford, thearchitectural chaos of MIT or even, perhaps, the 1950s brutalism of Moscow. 谈到大学，你可能想到宁静致远、与世隔绝的牛津大学，也可能是建筑风格混杂的麻省理工大学，更甚至是50年代莫斯科的那种粗狂主义。 A Daliesque building on a subtropical island, with a view of the ocean and signs on campuswarning of venomous snakes, is more unusual. 一座亚热带岛屿上，可以望到大海，同时也可以看到毒蛇的警告的标志。 But that is appropriate, for the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology ,inaugurated as a graduate university on November 19th, is intended to be unusual. 就是在这样一个地方，达里艺术风格的建筑就显得格外不同。冲绳理工学院不走寻常路的理念也适合这种风格。这所研究生学院正准备在九月十九号开学。 It was built from scratch on a forested hilltop overlooking the East China Sea, and itsapproach to science starts from scratch too. | 
