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...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...
...after watching Corinthians, he decided sports was a better bet. The team was desperate for a benefactor. Despite a fan base of some 24 million, the club attracted fewer than 10,000 people at most games, was more than $20 million in debt and had a revenue stream one-tenth of the $300 million that English powerhouse Manchester United rakes in annually. As for the rest of the Brazilian league, only six of Brazil's top 24 clubs are even profitable. The only way Brazilian clubs have made money lately is to sell bankable stars overseas--849 of them since...
...would not grieve over losing the sense of sight. In the last century, it has totally dominated all the other senses even though it has the least receptors—the eye has one-tenth the sense receptors...
...candidate who wins over one-tenth of all first-place votes is immediately elected to the council, while candidates with the fewest number of first-place votes are eliminated from the race. The surplus votes of the winners, along with the votes of the eliminated candidates, are then transferred to the next candidates listed on the ballots. This process of redistributing votes continues until all nine seats are filled...
...getting old. Not just regular old: Madonna old. In her prime, Kylie Minogue brought composition and color to her music videos at a time when most middle-of-the-road pop artists thought sex appeal just meant humping the camera. However, for the first single off her tenth studio album, “X,” Kylie seems to be merely going through the motions, and barely even that. Nothing happens in the video, except for her singing atop a black piano and then a black stage. Actually, there’s a lot of black in this video...