Word: liu
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...Alex” lived in her room when she opened the door. “I pointed at my name on the door and told him good night,” she said. Another student said Garcia asked her for a certain “Kristina Liu,” so that she could help him with a Molecular and Chemical Biology problem set. No College student under that name lives in Cabot. Garcia was arraigned on the same day. He could not be reached for comment. “It is my sincere hope that the material taught...
...Elise X. Liu ’11, a Crimson editorial writer, is a social studies concentrator in Cabot House. Her column appears on alternate Fridays...
...jarring to see where a drug like heparin begins. Liu Jing, a cheerful 36-year-old, is stomping around in pig poop and mud in knee-high boots. He is a farmer in Jiangsu province, north of Shanghai, where providing the raw ingredients for heparin is a big business. Liu's farm produces a key source of heparin: pig intestines. (Heparin is derived from the mucous membranes in the intestines.) Nearly half the world's pigs are in China, so companies like SPL have set up shop. In SPL's case, it first began buying raw heparin in 1996, established...
Farmers like Liu sell to small-scale companies--often family-run businesses--that process the intestines into crude heparin, which in turn becomes the key ingredient for the heparin that Baxter and other major drug firms sell worldwide. SPL's CEO, David Strunce, told Congress last spring that the raw material comes from "government-regulated slaughterhouses." But that regulation, farmers in Jiangsu told TIME, is haphazard at best. And if the slaughterhouses are haphazardly regulated, the small heparin-processing businesses--hundreds of them across the country--are virtually unregulated. "We haven't ever had the government come and inspect...
...Legislative Director of the Harvard College Democrats, is a social studies concentrator in Leverett House. Elise X. Liu ’11 is a social studies concentrator in Cabot House. William Weingarten ’11 is an applied math concentrator in Mather House. Liu and Weingarten are members-at-large of the Harvard College Democrats...