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...communist cadre. After 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ferreting Out the Phonies | 3/21/2005 | See Source »

...medicine is rife with "just so" stories. St. John's wort is good for rheumatism and chamomile cures insomnia because Grandma said it was just so. But scientific evidence is emerging that Asia's favorite leafy tonic, green tea, may in fact be everything Granny said it was. A joint research team from the University of Murcia in Spain and the John Innes Centre in England has found that green tea is loaded with a compound, epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), that has demonstrable cancer-fighting properties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tea Versus the Big "C" | 3/21/2005 | See Source »

...lung tumors. "For the first time we have a scientific explanation of why EGCG inhibits the growth of cancer cells at concentrations which are found in the blood of people who drink two to three cups of green tea a day," says Professor Roger Thorneley, one of the joint research team members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tea Versus the Big "C" | 3/21/2005 | See Source »

...Army surgeons left in Somalia that day, which was memorialized in the film Black Hawk Down. They performed 34 surgeries in a nonstop 36-hour stint. Haunted by the event, Holcomb and others began pushing for change. Army and Air Force commanders together argued that the military needed a joint medical strategy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Emergency Room | 3/20/2005 | See Source »

...communist cadre. After 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ferreting Out the Phonies | 3/20/2005 | See Source »

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