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Edison Liu is a Hong Kong native who studied in the U.S. and eventually rose to become director of the division of clinical sciences at the National Cancer Institute. But in 2001 the government of Singapore made him an offer he couldn't refuse: the directorship of the brand new Genome Institute along with a $25 million starting budget--part of a $288 million integrated network of life-science research centers and biotech start-ups called Biopolis. Says Liu: "I came because I saw that the entire leadership of the country, the fabric of the country was thirsting for biology...
...Cape Cod, roughly 100 miles away, Russell makes the trip to Cambridge nearly every weekend to shop at the Garment District for “all the cheap vintage stuff,” she said. Even as she dug through the racks of vintage, used, and name-brand clothes, she was already wearing a cotton, 70s-era housedress that she bought from the Garment District just the weekend before. Unlike Una’s in the Square and other small, used-clothing shops, the Garment District is an enormous two-story “department store” with...
Political pundits have long discounted former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani's presidential prospects, claiming that his particular brand of tough-talking, socially moderate conservatism would never play south of the Mason-Dixon Line. But Rudy has never been one to listen to conventional wisdom, and lately at least, he has been turning up the heat in southern conservative political circles...
...Kabul. But this next phase of military operations in Afghanistan is especially problematic, because while Nato's expanding mission has tactical similarities to the continuing U.S. mission there, fundamentally, the two could not be more different. The U.S. has 19,000 troops in the country, devoted to a particular brand of counterterrorism: search-and-destroy sweeps, intelligence gathering, infiltration, targeted assassination. The Americans have never been keen on "nation building." They have run prts, but only as a second string to the imperative of counterterrorism. The Europeans, on the other hand, are only there for nation building, albeit...
...chronic lack of infrastructure. INDIA, says Michael E. Porter, a Harvard Business School professor and expert on competitiveness. China is exporting massively, but "it's still adding relatively little value," he says. Moreover, China's companies tend not to be very profitable, and there is a dearth of Chinese brands. By contrast, "India is further along in building a productive business environment," Porter said. "It has talented high-end people with deep expertise in IT, software, pharmaceuticals. It has the opportunity to go much further." And as the Indian parties all over Davos this year proved, it already...