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...increasingly mainland-oriented Hong Kong International Film Festival will demonstrate when it opens this week. Chinese films like Hero and House of Flying Daggers have earned world-class box office, while the gradual liberalization of the mainland market means the demand for Chinese-language movies is only going to grow. If Hong Kong's smartest producers can leverage the city's international financial networks, China experience and stable of stars, then it could defend its position as the beating heart of Chinese cinema. "There are tremendous challenges and tremendous opportunities," says Nansun Shi, one of Hong Kong's most respected...
...demand. Today, that means a new generation of India-focused mutual funds and hedge funds, often with wonderfully alluring names like (my favorite) the Monsoon India Inflection Fund. The most voguish vehicles of all are mid-cap funds that bet on riskier Indian companies that may one day grow up to be blue chips. In November and December alone, the CNX mid-cap index jumped 28%. Nilesh Shah, head of equity strategy at Kotak Securities in Bombay, says his team's fledgling mid-cap fund, targeted at foreigners willing to pony up $100,000, soared 59% in the six months...
Melton and Eggan’s work would only allow embryos to grow for two weeks, and they would never be put into a human body to develop further...
...fame as the lead singer of platinum-selling South African band Bongo Maffin before releasing her first solo album last year. "We want something that gives African musicians the most rotation." Roedy's response: "We launched with a 30% split to African music, and our commitment is to grow that to at least 50%. There is absolutely no reason why African artists cannot influence and lead the world." --By Simon Robinson/Johannesburg
...Texas scientists wondered whether they could take advantage of that existing defense system and use the transformed B cells as cancer alarm bells. By customizing EBV-infected B cells with proteins specific to certain cancers, they could grow killer T cells in the lab that are trained to fight those specialized B cells. The T cells would then be able to find and destroy malignant cells as if they were just another cell infected with a virus...