Word: liu
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...People most probably don’t think of an organic chemistry graduate student at a top school as anything but an extremely hard-working nerd, let alone a nationally recognized surfer,” David R. Liu, associate professor of chemistry and chemical biology, wrote in an e-mail...
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...caregivers of the victims. One frightening exception to this pattern of transmission is the outbreak at the Metropole Hotel in Hong Kong's down-at-the-heel Mongkok district. Six ill-fated guests on the hotel's 9th floor appear to have caught the disease from semiretired medical professor Liu Jianlun. He is believed to have been solely responsible for carrying the disease from Guangdong into Hong Kong in mid-February, after reportedly catching it while treating patients at a Guangzhou hospital. Scientists think Liu, 64, came into close contact with his fellow guests at the Metropole either while waiting...
...than borrowing money from pawnbrokers that have become China's de facto commercial lenders. The booming city of Chengdu, Sichuan's capital, is home to some 200 pawnbrokers. Don't think of them as sleazy purveyors of rusting bikes and busted TVs. The tiled floors and tawny sofas of Liu Jianjun's Building China Pawnshop suggest a bank lobby, and rightly so. His loans, which can run up to $1 million each, mostly go to private businesses...
...Moreover, it is often a pain to lend to small firms. Their owners show up in bank lobbies with account books that frequently combine grade-school math with Enron-style deceptions, making it nearly impossible to place a value on their operations. Liu Binbin has seen it all as a lending supervisor at the Chengdu City Commercial Bank (C.C.C.B.), one of a hundred or so such banks set up over the past several years across the mainland specifically to lend to small companies. One applicant, the owner of a factory that makes pickled vegetables, visited Binbin's office recently with...