While Giorgos Voulgarakis, the minister of public order, has said the country has prepared itself as well as humanly possible against potential threats, the last-minute completion of many Olympic sites has prompted some worry about whether they are secured against terrorists.
Flashes of light and celebration were the story at Cartier, as it prepares itself for the upcoming Biennale.
As Rio prepares itself for the football World Cup, another, very different sporting event took place in the city this weekend.
The new decrees came as Venezuela prepares itself for municipal and regional elections that the opposition believes offers a make-or-break chance to derail Chávez's Bolivarian project.
Music-streaming service Spotify is now allowing merchandise sales through its player, as it prepares itself for the arrival of a major new rival.
As HBO prepares itself for the end of Game of Thrones, it's apparent that they're putting weight on Westworld to take over as the network's dominant fantasy epic.
In the rocky year since Facebook's much-discussed IPO, the rollercoaster of the stock price has highlighted both challenges and opportunities facing Twitter as it prepares itself for the next test.
Still, he expressed skepticism that the meeting in Egypt would resolve the underlying causes of the recent outbreak of violence, warning that "the army has to prepare itself for long-term confrontation as long as is necessary".
This might suggest that, while the chemotactic function is still required 3 h post-inoculation to attract neutrophils, the uterus is already preparing itself to terminate inflammatory signals as soon as bacterial invasion is under control.
The store had obviously prepared itself for the crowds as it was fully staffed and a large cooler of complimentary (non-promotional) Dasani bottled water was being emptied out and handed to me and the other excited shoppers.
