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Lederhosen, fondue and dried-seaweed snacks? Guten Tag from Shenzhen! Nestled in rolling hills outside this southern boomtown is China's very own version of Interlaken. No detail of the famed Swiss alpine resort appears to have been ignored in this local facsimile, from ski chalets, mineral baths and roasting sausages to the frulein in braids who greets you on arrival. Perhaps the only thing missing from this Chinese alpine idyll is, well, snow...
...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...
...really good place at that time, about two years ago,” says Jeremiah Elrick, a.k.a. Normal, one-half of local MC tag-team Awkward Landing. “[Sam] was kind of part of that scene too, and so through mutual friends that was how the connection started...
Bush vetoed the measure because of its Bizarro World price tag, which split the difference between a $14billion House version and a $15billion Senate version with a $23billion consensus bill. Defenders say it has been seven years since Congress approved flood-control projects, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has championed the bill. But the corps already has a more than $50billion backlog of unfinished projects, and investigations had exposed its dysfunctional habits--wasting money, draining wetlands, cooking its books to justify boondoggles--long before its bungling drowned New Orleans. Still, corps projects are a form...
Rebuke for stem-cell research New Jersey Governor John Corzine spent $150,000 of his own money on a measure to create state-funded stem-cell research. But taxpayers balked at the $450 million price tag; pro-lifers fought it on moral grounds. It became the first statewide ballot initiative rejected by New Jersey voters in 17 years...