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...HOWARD PIEN Pill Pitcher...
Biotech firm Chiron has grown briskly in recent years, with last year's revenue up 14% over 2001's, to $1.3 billion. Yet its future looks uncertain; few of its new drugs are close to reaching market. So the firm, based in Emeryville, Calif., has made Pien, 45, its new CEO. Born in China and reared in the Bronx, Pien has run GlaxoSmithKline's international operations for two years and is expected to help Chiron extend its global reach. Analysts say his toughest task will be building up the product pipeline...
Esoteric Substances. In fact, six drug companies were represented at the Rhode Island conference. Some are already active in the field, testing such esoteric substances as paolin I, an antibacterial compound, and paolin II, an antiviral agent. Both were extracted from the juices of the abalone by Dr. Chen Pien Li at the National Institutes of Health. Similar extracts from quahaugs (thick-shelled clams) have been found to be active against some forms of cancer in mice. So far, chemicals from shellfish appear to have only moderate potency, but the sea offers an almost infinite variety of other potential sources...
...intricate, crowded feet (scaled roughly at a foot to a mile), the scroll follows a meandering road downriver, from dawn to dusk. In its 33-mile course, the road enters the gates of the high-walled Sung capital Pien-liang, and becomes a city street lined with pawnshops, paint shops, butcher shops, restaurants, lute shops, wineshops, needle shops, antique shops...
Tradition was invoked. Said Hsin Ming Wan Pao: In the old days when sedan chairs met on a path, the coolies shouted: "Yu pien chou!-Keep to the right!" In Manchu days, Shih Chieh Jih Pao noted, all officials entered the Imperial court on the right-hand side. Said the official Chung Yang Jih Pao: "Keeping to the left is not our ancient system. ... In the old Chinese dictionary . . . right meant high, good, strength. . . . The right occupation is the high occupation, the right party is the government party. Left means inconvenience, unrighteousness, debasement; the left way means the evil...
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