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...Nine in all, they were spoils of war, taken last April from their village of Khor Abeche in a dawn raid by the Arab militiamen known as Janjaweed, who had descended on camels and horses and in pickups mounted with machine guns. The women's village, on the cusp of rebel and government redoubts in South Darfur, was burned and looted; their husbands and fathers and brothers were shot when they protested...
Jing Cheng, 42, is at the cusp of that effort. Like an increasing number of other Chinese scientists and engineers, the CEO of CapitalBio Corp. has returned from the U.S., where he ran a small biotech company in San Diego, to pursue opportunities at home. An offshoot of Beijing's Tsinghua University (often called the M.I.T. of China), CapitalBio is among an �lite group of Chinese life-sciences companies and research institutes. At the Beijing Genomics Institute researchers have decoded the rice genome and worked to find a cure for SARS. CapitalBio has already shown it also plays...
...people who are writing a thesis are good students—it made me kind of consider ‘is this worth it?’” says McKean, who ended up writing a thesis. “If you’re right on the cusp there, it’s really difficult to get it, and all that hard work makes it a lot less appealing...
...people who are writing a thesis are good students—it made me kind of consider ‘is this worth it?’” says McKean, who ended up writing a thesis. “If you’re right on the cusp there, it’s really difficult to get it, and all that hard work makes it a lot less appealing...
...video for their new single “Banquet” is any indication, Bloc Party are on the cusp of underground superstardom. Bloc Party marries The Libertines couldn’t-give-a-fuck cool to Franz Ferdinand’s art-damaged pop, and the results are electrifying...