This is a billboard that says Welcome to the birthplace of General Tso.

So let me go on the record and say, vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.

I mean, they are not they ain't competing for the birthplace of hip hop title or anything like that.

Some of the famous early computers were being built in my hometown of Urbana, the birthplace of HAL 9000.

Recalling the fact that the Palestinian city of Bethlehem is the birthplace of Jesus Christ and one of the most historic and significant sites on earth,

The Institute of Ecology and the Environment, Tsinghua Yangtze River Delta Research Institute in Zhejiang Province is located in Jiaxing, the birthplace of the Red Boat spirit.

The new collective leadership returned to the birthplace of the Party, which has also started a great earthshaking cause for revitalizing the nation in a new era.

Since the first Web browser was also developed in Urbana, it appears that my hometown in downstate Illinois was the birthplace of much of the virtual, online universe we occupy today.

As for the birthplace of the euro crisis, Greece s debt will almost surely have to be restructured. But adequate funding structures for Italy and Spain must be in place before any resolution.

WARWICK The just concluded French presidential election seemed to suggest that the old left right divisions are as potent as they have ever been and certainly in their birthplace. But are they?

And I know that vulnerability is the core of shame and fear and our struggle for worthiness, but it appears that it's also the birthplace of joy, of creativity, of belonging, of love.

Nepal is the birthplace of Lord Buddha apostle of peace and harmony, whose teachings of peace, compassion, non violence and tolerance remain as relevant as ever and have become much more pertinent in our turbulent times.

As in all violent revolutions, the morality of the dictator s opponents was never entirely without blemish. The rebels, who reduced Qaddafi s birthplace to rubble, were in some cases as ruthlessly brutal as the men against whom they were fighting.

For example, Gdansk the birthplace of the Solidarity movement does not have a single methadone treatment center. People must travel for three hours to get the medicine that is proven to control cravings and reduce the harms of drug use.

Asians watch with sympathy the fall from grace of the birthplace of Western civilization. But perhaps Greece should look to Asia for proof that, by taking responsibility for its own destiny, a country can emerge stronger from even the most difficult trials.

And then a few years ago, a group of us, about 25 of us from about 10 different countries, decided to see if we could retrace the footsteps of Abraham, going from his initial birthplace in the city of Urfa in Southern Turkey, Northern Mesopotamia.

But, for the Greeks, eurozone membership does not mean only that they can use the common currency. It places their country on a par with Italy, Spain, France, and Germany, as a full member of Europe a position consistent with Greece s status as the birthplace of Western civilization.

Nepal is committed to develop Lumbini, the birthplace of Lord Buddha, as the fountain of world peace and a world peace city, where people can go to meditate on world peace, hold discourses on the Buddha's teachings and carry out research on his teachings to promote peace and harmony.

Serbia considered Kosovo as the birthplace of its nation and the cradle of culture, because Serbia had built its most powerful country here in the 12th century. However, the Albanian people settled here in large numbers only after the Ottoman Empire invaded and the Serbian army retreated to the north.

PRINCETON Hitler and Stalin were ruthless dictators who committed murder on a vast scale. But, while it is impossible to imagine a Hitler statue in Berlin, or anywhere else in Germany, statues of Stalin have been restored in towns across Georgia (his birthplace), and another is to be erected in Moscow as part of a commemoration of all Soviet leaders.

STANFORD California has long been a harbinger of national and global trends (both wonderful and overindulgent), a birthplace of innovation in everything from technology and entertainment to lifestyles. The world s most important technology companies still make their start and their headquarters in California Apple, Intel, Cisco, Oracle, Google, and Facebook, to name a few in the neighborhood where I teach and live.

US tennis fans watch tennis wherever it is played all over the world, and the US audience for golf does not plummet when a tournament is played in the sport s birthplace, Scotland. More Americans watch soccer in the European and Mexican leagues, in English and in Spanish, than watch baseball and ice hockey, traditionally considered two of the big four US sports (along with American football and basketball).

PRINCETON This Christmas, like every Christmas, thousands of pilgrims and tourists will travel to the Middle East to celebrate the holiday in the land of the Bible. In Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem will lead a midnight mass, while in Syria where some Christians still speak dialects of Aramaic, similar to the ancient language Jesus spoke celebrations are likely to be subdued, curtailed by the dangers of a war that is tearing the country apart.