Word: chipping
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...develop the disease. For more than 15 years, scientists have searched for the chemical factors that protect these so-called long-term nonprogressors, and now a team of researchers including Dr. David Ho, director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, think they have found them. Using new protein-chip technology, they have identified three proteins--alpha-defensins 1, 2 and 3--that are present in nonprogressors but not in AIDS patients. The defensins, which are well known as natural bacteria fighters, could offer scientists a promising new focus for drug design. "This is not going to be the ultimate...
...seems there's never been a better time to be an artist in Singapore. Maybe I'm young and naive. I love the idea of more money coming to artists like myself. People might stop looking at me like some Enron stock and treat me like a blue chip investment. That thought makes me really happy. I think I'll go dance...
...Prancing Horse play the ponies/buy a Ferrari Poker chip call your bookie Sail-shaped patterns junk trip! HSBC headquarters building Don't worry, there's plenty more money where this came from Light bulb Hong Kong is out of bright ideas. Purchase a flat in Shanghai
...stores open for at least 12 months shrank 2.7% from the year before. The company has suffered declining profits for six of the past seven quarters and just lowered its earnings expectations for 2002. Wall Street's indigestion over the news pushed McDonald's once dependable blue-chip stock down to a seven-year low, helping sink the Dow Jones average close to a four-year nadir...
...House drinks include the Chinese Whisper (Cointreau, Midori and lemonade) or a frozen vodka-cassis cocktail called the Shanghai Blues. The real action, though, is in the cushioned front salon, where the jeunesse dorée of the 21st century gather each night to discuss red lipstick and red-chip companies - even the prettiest, poutiest Shanghai vixen dabbles in the market. If nothing else, a conversation might elicit a decent stock tip. Hints and hustle are what the new Shanghai is all about - just like the Shanghai of yesteryear...