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...deals between Chinese sports companies and U.S. sports teams, is a mystery man to many in the Chinese sports world, while he's considered something of an up-and-comer in U.S. industry circles. Ganis and Huang helped Rockets owner Leslie Alexander buy a stake in Chinese sportswear firm Anta for its successful initial public offering two years ago. But that comprador work is minor compared with the Cavs deal, which would rank as the biggest international sporting investment by a Chinese-Hong Kong consortium if it goes through. "It makes sense for the Chinese to look for business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will China Play Ball with the Cleveland Cavaliers? | 5/26/2009 | See Source »

...Wirth said in a phone interview from Senegal, where she is running a workshop on her study’s results. Wirth’s study—conducted in conjunction with researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard as well as the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Senegal—discovered almost 47,000 differences among the genes of the parasite in Africa, Asia, and South America. This genetic variation gives Plasmodium falciparum the ability to overcome vaccines and other treatments for malaria, allowing the disease to continue spreading. “It’s very...

Author: By Loren Amor, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Gene Map May Help Eradicate Malaria | 12/12/2006 | See Source »

...culture of technological transformation. There are not many great innovators still kicking around in the business world, but Steve Jobs and Apple Computer are leading the way. With them in the forefront, it won't be long before home theater becomes mainstream. I can't wait. Frank Katch anta Barbara, California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 12/12/2005 | See Source »

Hence, argued the founding father of Afrocentrist history, the late Senegalese writer Cheikh Anta Diop, whatever is Egyptian is African, part of the lost black achievement; Imhotep, the genius who invented the pyramid as a monumental form in the 3rd millennium B.C., was black, and so were Euclid and Cleopatra in Alexandria 28 dynasties later. Blacks in Egypt invented hieroglyphics, and monumental stone sculpture, and the pillared temple, and the cult of the Pharaonic sun king. The habit of European and American historians of treating the ancient Egyptians as other than black is a racist plot to conceal the achievements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fraying Of America | 2/3/1992 | See Source »

Senya does not keep his rendezvous with destiny, but Derek Jacobi does. Best known for the title role in the TV series I, Claudius, Jacobi makes his debut at Broadway's ANTA Theater a thumping virtuosic triumph. He is unfazed even by the giant Junglegym of a set. Toward the end of the play, Senya pleads with the faceless state: "Give us the right to whisper." This production usurps the right to drone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Ghostly Cry | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

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