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...find their next blockbuster drug while keeping research costs low. In 2006, big drug companies doubled R&D investment in China and India over the previous year, to $2.2 billion. Nearly all of that went into China, thanks to generous government support and strong infrastructure. Beijing wants to attract more than 2% of the world's R&D budget, or about $10 billion...
After centuries of living in photogenic poverty, the people of Zug decided in 1946 to turn their canton into a haven that would attract companies even from other parts of Switzerland. Today the 97,800 residents of the Zug canton, many of whom work in the corporate offices here, enjoy an average annual income of $40,000. Among them are at least six billionaires. Unemployment is virtually...
...stems back to an agreement made between the two schools setting up a three-year, three-game series. This year marks the second game of that series, the only one scheduled to be played on the Crimson’s home floor. It is very unusual for Harvard to attract such big-name, Division I competition, let alone have a team of that quality travel to Cambridge.“Just in terms of beating a Big Ten team, that would be great,” Housman says. “Not even looking at where [Amaker] was coaching last...
...media missed what may have set Chávez off in the first place. Chávez became visibly irritated at the summit when Spain's current Prime Minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero - a socialist and Chávez ally - insisted that Latin America needs to attract more foreign capital if it's going to make a dent in its chronic, deepening poverty. Chávez blames "savage capitalism" for Latin America's gaping inequality and insists "only socialism" can fix it - hence his tirade against Aznar and other free-market "fascists." At that point Zapatero chided...
...Britney-Madonna kiss in 2003, Spears’w universally panned appearance at this year’s VMAs captured all the wrong kinds of attention. “Blackout,” then, is faced with a challenge: it has to win fans back or at least attract a new demographic of followers. Each track seems acutely aware of this pressure. “Blackout” is a coherent attack on the paparazzi, media, and K-Fed. Spears displays a concerted self-confidence that imbues the album with intensity and energy. Most tracks have a heavily electronic sound...