Word: liu
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...make strong recommendations,” he said. “We don’t want the cured meat and sausage industry on our tails.” Researchers need to conduct long-term cohort studies or animal studies in order to gather further information, said Chen-yu Liu, a research fellow at HSPH and the primary author of the manuscript. “Leukemia is the most important childhood cancer,” said Liu. “I’m concerned about the children, and what factors are associated with the disease.” According...
...Luckily, one doesn't have to travel far from Shaoshan and its blaring patriotic songs and armies of hawkers to find a more nuanced and interesting look at modern China. The birthplace of Liu Shaoqi, another communist leader and Mao's contemporary, lies an hour's drive from Shaoshan in Ningxiang county. Liu's memorial is quiet and forested. Once you pass through the entry gates there are no touts or trinket stands, and noticeably fewer visitors. Liu was known as a practical, down-to-earth official. During an inspection tour of the region in 1961, he learned...
...Liu's role during that turbulent era is detailed at the museum in his village. During a recent visit, I saw a man bow his head before a Liu memorial, showing the sort of genuine reverence that's wasn't apparent in Mao's hometown. As I walked through the museum, a tour guide announced that his statue was supposedly gazing toward the bronze of Mao some 30 miles (50 km) away. But as to what Liu was thinking, she didn't venture a guess...
...content just to dress the feet of American celebrities. During 22 years as ceo of Salvatore Ferragamo Italia, Ferruccio has developed the company into a global luxury brand that generates half its business in Asia. During a visit to Hong Kong, the exiting ceo talked to Time's LING LIU about the company's Eastern expansion...
...authorities don't see it that way. Police have police have interrogated more than 100 of the document's original signatories; Liu Xiaobo, a dissident scholar who was one of the drafters, was arrested by Beijing police on Dec. 8 and remains in custody. In an article published in an official journal on Jan. 18, Jia Qinglin, China's fourth-highest official, warned that the country should avoid multiparty systems, separation of political powers and other "erroneous ideological interferences." And in December President Hu Jintao warned the country to "not waver" in implementing economic reform, a remark that was interpreted...