Word: millennium
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...Swie Hian is Singapore's most prolific artist in terms of the range of media he works in?from literature, calligraphy, painting, sculpture, performance to design," says Kwok Kian Chow, director of the Singapore Art Museum. Tan recently showcased the diversity of his talents in Instant Is a Millennium, the opening gala performance of the recent Singapore Arts Festival. The project took Tan two years to develop, during which he directed musicians, set designers, seamstresses and interpreters. During the show, a montage of Tan's vibrantly colorful paintings was projected onto a video screen while a narrator recited...
...Mark McClellan, who is on a mission to get lifesaving drugs through the review process safely and quickly. He believes that poor communication between the fda and firms seeking drug approval adds months to reviews - and costs companies millions of dollars. He took over in November and immediately steered Millennium Pharmaceuticals' cancer treatment Velcade to a fast-track approval. One can't overestimate "how important the fda's change in attitude has been," says Kris Jenner, manager of T. Rowe Price Health Sciences Fund. The fear in speeding new drugs to market is that too little will be done...
...University economist who is on a mission to get lifesaving drugs through the review process safely and quickly. He believes that poor communication between the FDA and firms seeking drug approval adds months to reviews--and costs companies millions of dollars. He took over in November and immediately steered Millennium Pharmaceuticals' cancer treatment Velcade to a fast-track approval. One can't overestimate "how important the FDA's change in attitude has been," says Kris Jenner, manager of T. Rowe Price Health Sciences Fund...
...missionaries in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan and the apparently religiously motivated murders of four more in Yemen and Lebanon. The botched bombing last month of a Dutch-German missionary family in Tripoli, Lebanon, suggests the danger is not abating. Says Stan Guthrie, author of the book Missions in the Third Millennium: "People are beginning to count the costs. If you're in the wrong place at the wrong time, you could be killed. Missionaries have always considered the possibility, but now it's a lot more real...
...Sherbok, a professor of Judaism at the University of Wales. He argues that Jews can live perfectly religious lives without meat, as he has done for the past decade. There's no doubt, he says, that Shechita "was the most humane form of slaughter" when it developed over a millennium ago, but it is no longer in keeping with "high ethical principle." He knows that his stance will alienate many. "I'm breaking ranks," he admits. But compassion for animals, he says, is the overriding principle that should guide contemporary Jews. Cohn-Sherbok is also saddened that it is solidarity...