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...stem-cell research didn't end with last year's presidential election. It turned into a state-by-state free-for-all. While antiabortion lawmakers in some states are trying to ban the research--which uses cells, above, from discarded embryos or donated, unfertilized eggs--others see a potential gold mine and are trying to attract biotech firms. It's another red-state/blue-state divide, with some twists. --By Mitch Frank...
...While Hong Kong-made cinema was forgetting how to make money, mainland movies were striking box-office gold. Hero and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and House of Flying Daggers all proved that there's undoubted demand for good Chinese movies in Asia and beyond. But here's the hope for Hong Kong: even though each of those films were shot in the mainland with Chinese directors, they never would have been made without Hong Kong. Most of the films' stars hail from the city, and all of the movies were co-productions with Hong Kong companies that had experience...
...NEXT: "Barefoot" Banker Strikes Gold...
...attending the prestigious Harbin Institute of Technology (he majored in "the automatic control of intercontinental missiles"), Feng moved to Canada, eventually earning a Ph.D. in math from the University of Toronto. His first business venture back in China, which made him a millionaire at 26, created joint ventures in gold and diamond mining and then sold them through a deal with multibillionaire mining financier Robert Friedland...
...opened at the Hong Kong Heritage Museum last week, stately stone Buddhas commingle with Greek gods and goddesses, an Iranian prince, and a bare-chested warrior with a rosy complexion and deep blue eyes. A dragon-edged jade disk vies for attention against vases of swirling Roman glass, Byzantine gold coins and a curious flock of tiny wooden geese that could almost pass for miniatures of the sculptures of Henry Moore. If not for the captions to remind us where the motley 300 objects on display were unearthed, it might be easy to forget that the subject of the show...