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...price tag for drug trials in China can be one-tenth that in the U.S. or Europe, says Chen Li, medical director at the Shanghai-based firm KendleWits, which facilitates drug trials for major drug companies. Plus, she says, "patients are less likely to have been previously exposed to other medicines" that could alter results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Drug Addiction | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

...major bank uses NuTech software to examine millions of customers' deposit and withdrawal habits, complaint records, bounced checks and even the number of telemarketing calls they have received. The software predicts which customers are disgruntled and likely to take their business elsewhere. The bank then calls to say "We'd like to make things better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Technology: Where Lech Walesa Does Tech | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

...their off-season priorities were, and who might be available in trades. To the execs, it was an efficient way to horse-trade information that they typically would share in various time-consuming, one-on-one conversations. Some teams spoke in general terms, others got a little more specific, Major League Baseball insists it was not a conspiracy meeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A-Rod's Salary: Watching for Collusion | 11/13/2007 | See Source »

...outside world, France's nationwide transport strike Wednesday will look like just another in a long line of work stoppages by French workers and their notoriously militant labor unions. Here on Planet France, however, those protests over proposed pension cutbacks are being viewed as the first major battle in a wider zero-sum war - the outcome of which will determine the fate of President Nicolas Sarkozy's vast reform program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport Strikes to Derail Sarkozy? | 11/13/2007 | See Source »

...wins, the last major barricade to reform falls, and the road ahead of him is cleared," explains political analyst Dominique Reynié. "If he fails or compromises the measure away, the unions come out strengthened, and he has to face the anger of his own conservative backers who will accuse him of selling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport Strikes to Derail Sarkozy? | 11/13/2007 | See Source »

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