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...Chinese Premier Hu Jintao began his four-day visit to India -the first by a Chinese head of state in more than a decade - there was plenty of talk about the good ties between the two countries, about the free trade agreement they hope to sign and about the fact that 2006 is "India-China Friendship Year." But what you won't hear as much about this week, at least not officially, are the tensions that remain between Beijing and New Delhi...
That's the last thing the U.S. needs. As the nation's premier guardian of public health, the CDC is responsible for researching, tracking and counteracting newly emerging infectious diseases like West Nile and SARS. Doctors rely on it to develop unbiased recommendations on a wide range of medical issues from when to vaccinate children to how best to battle obesity. It also directs funds to individual state and local public agencies to shore up their own community health efforts...
...neither she nor her top editors has time to think about the possibility of failure.The group had their first photo shoot, complete with professional models and photographers, at New York’s landmark Chelsea Hotel in mid-October, and is planning another in early December for its premier issue, set to come out in New York in early February.Still three months removed from that publication date, Matthews and company have already assembled about three-quarters of the content for the first issue and are preparing for their second.The idea for the magazine surfaced nearly two years ago, when Matthews...
...Long-time head coach Fred Dunphy is not back, however, after leaving Penn, but not Philadelphia, in the spring, to replace Hall-of-Famer John Chaney at fellow Big 5 institution Temple. So Glen Miller, formerly of Brown, takes over the reins of the Ivy League’s premier program...
...spirit may prove critical for the country. It is at the hub of Mexico's most ambitious push to forge government, business and university partnerships that can generate new companies, based not on natural resources but on cutting-edge technologies. The city's "Monterrey Tech"--perhaps Latin America's premier business and engineering school--is a central link in this effort, which is supported by $1 billion of annual federal spending on scientific and technological research and focused on building up Ciudad del Conocimiento (Knowledge City), mandated to germinate new business clusters in biotechnology and information technologies. Monterrey has more...