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...looked smart again when Chinese banks decided to clear their pile of nonperforming loans off the books as a first step to steadying the wobbly financial system. Anticipating a dealmaking frenzy, Chao and his team did their homework before potential buyers came knocking. A consortium led by the Morgan Stanley Real Estate Fund hired Chao and won the bidding on the first and biggest chunk, $1.3 billion in loans from Huarong Asset Management, in 2001. Such successes have made Chao fairly fearless. Last fall, during a staff retreat in Phoenix, Arizona, he led three lawyers from China on a three...
...woman in science, I know that you cannot overestimate the pervasiveness of attitudes discouraging girls from pursuing math and science. I grew up in a university town, the daughter of a female biologist, but still felt societal and peer pressure that made me believe I couldn't be smart at science. I credit my seventh-grade science teacher with encouraging me to break through my personal stereotypes and refusing to allow me to settle for B's or C's when he knew I could achieve...
Until quite recently, that wouldn't have been a smart bet. The idea of harnessing microbes to do a doctor's bidding flourished briefly in the 1960s, during the early days of the genetic revolution. Scientists sketched out grand plans for treating disease by adding or removing genes taken from bacteria or viruses. Because they were so good at penetrating cells, infectious agents seemed the ideal vehicles for delivering drugs. Some cancer patients were treated with experimentally modified viruses, and a few even saw their tumors shrink. Too often, however, scientists lost control of their microbial partners. "It wasn...
...looked smart again when Chinese banks decided to clear their pile of non-performing loans off the books as a first step to steadying the wobbly financial system. Anticipating a dealmaking frenzy, Chao and his team did their homework before potential buyers came knocking. A consortium led by the Morgan Stanley Real Estate Fund hired Chao and won the bidding on the first and biggest chunk, $1.3 billion in loans from Huarong Asset Management, in 2001. Such successes have made Chao fairly fearless. Last fall, during a staff retreat in Phoenix, Ariz., he led three lawyers from China...
...recently chosen as one of TIME's four comic Innovators.) While both contributors take credit for the writing and art of "Dungeon," Trondheim appears to be the principle draftsman. Wonderfully printed in full color, the special visual style of the books contribute as much to the fun as the smart writing (translated by Joe Johnson, who keeps it cheeky). Filled with details, as the way the Keeper's pipe smoke always coils into little skulls and lost creatures, and wildly imaginative and amusing creatures, like the stopwatch-shaped robots that need to be wound up, "Dungeon" has the same kind...