I want to go to Seattle.

I grew up in a tofu factory in Seattle.

And those are frozen solid, and they're shipped to Seattle.

New York City, Chicago, Seattle, all under a sheet of ice.

Northwest flight seven coming into Seattle on March 12th or whatever.

And I was looking at it yesterday, it's up in Seattle. OK.

And then someone built this this is the Smith Tower in Seattle.

And there's a statistic I often like to use, which is that we're adding a city of Seattle every four days, a city the size of Seattle to the planet every four days.

And, like Chief Seattle said, We did not spin the web of life.

Even neighbors with low tariff barriers, like Canada and the United States, trade more internally than across borders. Seattle and Vancouver are close geographically, but Vancouver trades more with distant Toronto than with nearby Seattle.

So we first hooked up a spot in the Navajo Nation with a classroom in Seattle.

Theater is really focused in New York, Chicago and Seattle, with the exception of the Dallas Theater Company.

This one in Seattle is on the site of a mall parking lot adjacent to a new transit stop.

We knew that, when monolinguals were tested in Taipei and Seattle on the Mandarin sounds, they showed the same pattern.

But looking way back, when I was a child you see, I grew up in a tofu factory in Seattle.

I used to work, also while at Microsoft, at a leading restaurant in Seattle, so I do a lot of cooking.

I couldn't just stay in Seattle and raise my kids in an upper middle class neighborhood and feel good about it.

In November 2015, Amazon opened its first physical bookstore in Seattle. This was followed by two bookstores in Portland and San Diego.

I had bought a copy of this book, The Universe and Dr. Einstein a used paperback from a secondhand bookstore in Seattle.

We implemented this checklist in eight hospitals around the world, deliberately in places from rural Tanzania to the University of Washington in Seattle.

And in Seattle, we take these this is a whole human hemisphere and we put them into what's basically a glorified meat slicer.

We should be up to a thousand in three centuries at the most, but my friend David Battisti in Seattle says he thinks a 100 years.

LONDON In the last two months, I have been in eight American cities Boston, New York, Washington, Houston, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle. Phew!

Also, the brilliant scientists who work at my lab and also others on staff, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington wonderful place to work.

In 1993, there was a table at the conference in Seattle, and a guy called Marc Andreessen was demonstrating his little browser for the World Wide Web.

So, we're adding a city the size of Seattle every seven days, and most of those cities look more like this than the city that you or I live in.

This is what one of those primary nodes looks like, and it's like a sub station with power and bandwidth that can spread out over an area the size of Seattle.

Architect Joshua Prince Ramus takes the audience on dazzling, dizzying virtual tours of three recent projects the Central Library in Seattle, the Museum Plaza in Louisville and the Charles Wyly Theater in Dallas.

There are plenty of shopping malls that allow you to get out of the rain in downtown Seattle, but there are not so many free places that allow you to get out of the rain.

Now, the first issue that we faced was that the Dallas Theater Center had a notoriety that was beyond what you would expect of some place outside of the triumvirate of New York, Chicago and Seattle.

But, anyway, that's where I grew up, in this little tofu factory in Seattle, and it was kind of like this a small room where I kind of grew up. I'm big there in that picture.

What you see here is performance on that head turn task for babies tested in Tokyo and the United States, here in Seattle, as they listened to ra and la sounds important to English, but not to Japanese.

And a very important piece of research came out on Friday from the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation in Seattle showing that almost 50 percent of the fall in child mortality can be attributed to female education.

Now I'm going to talk about I'm going to build up the Seattle Central Library in this way before your eyes in about five or six diagrams, and I truly mean this is the design process that you'll see.

Designer John Maeda talks about his path from a Seattle tofu factory to the Rhode Island School of Design, where he became president in 2008. Maeda, a tireless experimenter and a witty observer, explores the crucial moment when design met computers.

Microsoft s authorized representatives declared that they could not oppose the Russian police actions, because the Seattle based company had to abide by Russian law. Such an ambiguous declaration can be interpreted either as active support for the Russian police or as passive collaboration.

I actually ran out, I spent too much money on my road trip for the savings that I had to take my year off, so I had to, I went to Seattle and I spent some time with friends working on a really neat project.

SEATTLE Very soon, it will be economically feasible to sequence human genomes and collect massive amounts of different types of health data as standard medical practice. Already, there are remarkable examples of how these new genetic data are changing our thinking about disease and diagnosis.

SEATTLE Sometimes the best measure of a movement s momentum is the reaction of its critics. When, in early October, the Australian National University (ANU) announced that it would sell its shares in seven fossil fuel and mining companies, it triggered a chorus of criticism from the country s conservative politicians.

Well before the riots that marked the World Trade Organization talks in Seattle in 1999, I called for a true development round of trade talks to redress the inequities of previous rounds. The advanced countries, with their dominant corporate and financial interests, had set the agenda for those negotiations.

When I put Seattle on the path to divestment in 2013, my decision was well received by the young people who will have to live with the consequences of global warming, as well as the general public. As the political pressure mounts, the university s administrators need only listen to the students.

SHANGHAI When you think about centers of technological innovation, Silicon Valley, Seattle, and Seoul are probably the first places that come to mind. After all, they are the homes of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Intel, Microsoft, and Samsung companies whose innovations transform the way other sectors, from financial services to telecoms and media, do business.

In construction, for example, contractors are forming partnerships with labs to test materials that better reflect heat while absorbing energy to power cooling systems, and utility companies are leveraging new software tools to deploy smart meters in homes and offices. Two US cities New York and Seattle have raised efficiency standards for new construction to record levels.

To be sure, some will claim that the world will never change and that we will continue to depend on fossil fuels forever. But one has only to look to Seattle, where gay couples marry in City Hall and marijuana is sold in licensed retail outlets, to see the human capacity to reexamine deeply held assumptions.

CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA As Chinese President Xi Jinping begins his trip to the United States in Seattle, home to many of the world s leading technology firms, most observers are looking ahead to his subsequent meeting with President Barack Obama. Can the summit reverse the downward spiral in US China relations that began with Xi s accession to power in 2013?