Just got new Macbook Air, with 10.8.4.  - No Icloud

There is no Icloud that I can find anywhere (definitely not under system preferences where EVERY article insists it is).  Is there a way to download it?  I cannot turn on photo stream without it.  I cannot find any article about downloading it, only activating it, which assumes it is already on my machine somewhere.

Thanks for the suggestions.  I have all of the preferences showing.  I went in to the view window and the customize just to make sure.
I don't think I will try to reinstall OSX just yet; and I don't think it is worth returning the machine.
As I mentioned, when our company receives the computer, it does a coreload to add corp licensed SW and do some setup work on them.  They may have wiped out Icloud somehow. 
I am in the middle of Ethiopia at the moment and don't want to risk any major surgery like reloading the system - that might screw up the corp settings and I wil be screwed in the middle of nowhere. 
I am really surprised that it is not just an app that can be downloaded or a web interface. Because it was not built into windows machines, and I don't think it was built into the OS for the Ipad or Iphone. 
Thanks for all of the quick suggestions folks.

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