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...future of French politics and honing her message in anticipation of a possible future run against Sarkozy, according to Craig. She intends to visit MIT’s Media Lab—which aims to find ways to utilize technology to improve quality of life—and biotech companies to craft her strategies for promoting entrepreneurship and economic development. Additionally, Royal will meet with a number of faculty members, including economist Amartya Sen and historian of France Stanley Hoffmann. Goldhammer said he thinks Royal’s meetings with professors is part of her attempt to seek advice...
...road wasn't always easy, however. Folkman's first compound, which biotech companies rushed to test in people at the beginning of this decade, proved less effective in patients than in mice, giving skeptics yet another reason to doubt the approach. But that agent, dismissed by U.S. researchers, eventually won approval in 2005 for treating lung cancer in China, where it is extending the lives of non-small-cell lung cancer patients...
...just stirring woks or taking the graveyard shift at convenience stores. More than 80,000 Chinese students are studying at Japanese universities, two-thirds of Japan's total foreign college-student population. Upon graduation, they are entering the Japanese workforce, crowding lucrative fields such as IT and biotech. Sheer numbers work in China's favor; each year Japan graduates 100,000 science majors, while China pumps out 2.5 million...
...Tiananmen crackdown hardened many students' resolve to stay abroad. When the pro-democracy protests escalated in Beijing, Chen joined other expatriate Chinese students in their own demonstrations. After earning his Ph.D. in genetics, he stayed in Japan, developing biotech products for Japanese companies. But three years ago, Chen decided that he, too, should profit from China's economic boom. The possible taint of his Tiananmen activism had worn off; plenty of other former protesters were now striking it rich back home. Today, Chen helms a consulting company that helps Japanese pharmaceutical firms conduct clinical trials in China. "Without us, Japanese...
...Port Island, delegations of Chinese businessmen tour a vast technology park where city officials are offering tax breaks in the hopes of creating a new high-tech Chinatown. Chen's company headquarters are already here, as are dozens of other Chinese firms specializing in everything from scrap metal to biotech...