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Working with Baxter, the FDA devised a test that now identifies OSCS in heparin. The FDA will deploy eight full-time staffers in China, including four inspectors and a senior technical expert in foods, medicines and medical devices. And working with its counterpart agency in Beijing--which FDA commissioner Andrew van Eschenbach acknowledges is primarily responsible for drug safety there--the FDA will now be able to do "more timely" inspections in China. In 2008 the FDA did all of 30 inspections in China...
...Nevertheless, with his advancing age, toothy smiles, and acknowledged struggle with hair loss, Berlusconi still will have a counterpart to turn to in Washington: Vice President Joe Biden. They may both have to resort to gaffes to get a piece of the limelight...
...final 10 minutes of regulation until Lizzy Nichols’ penalty kick winner with nine seconds to go, no one sat down. For almost 30 minutes of Saturday’s game, no one stopped cheering. For a team that is often overshadowed by its men’s counterpart, this was its moment, and it took the opportunity head-on. “We couldn’t have done it without them. They were the 12th man out there,” senior Rachel Lau said. “They gave us that extra spark that we needed...
...catch, followed by a 6-yarder, and then the capper, a 40-yard bomb in which he outmaneuvered two defenders and stretched into the end zone.Olawale was replaced by the other half of Columbia’s quarterback duo, junior Shane Kelly, but he fared no better than his counterpart against the staunch Harvard defense.On his fourth play of the game, Kelly scrambled and made an unwise throw into the hands of freshman cornerback Matt Hanson, who returned it 28 yards to the Lion 16-yard line.Pizzotti lofted it into the end zone to Luft for a 17-yard touchdown...
...leaders in the region are the only ones capable of bringing this crisis to an end, notably the Rwandan President, Paul Kagame, and his Congolese counterpart, Joseph Kabila. But the historical entanglements of Kagame and Kabila in Rwanda's bloodbath and its aftermath raise serious questions about their willingness to do so. Meanwhile, globalization also plays its part. Armed combatants in the area, already accused of rape and genocidal murder, are profiting from Western companies doing business in the region...