Word: yuan
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Professor of Cell Biology Junying Yuan is one of 13 recipients of this year’s NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, the results of which will be officially announced at an NIH Symposium this morning. The grant is intended to fund chancey biomedical research in unexplored areas...
...Yuan said she thought the innovative aspects of her project helped her to earn the grant...
...award] was specifically aiming for research that had not been done anywhere before,” Yuan said. Applicants were assessed both on past research accomplishments and their specific research proposal...
...markets, resulting in job losses and industry complaints. The ensuing negotiations, which are still progressing unhurriedly and uncertainly, have been the cause of much friction between Beijing and Washington. Another touchy area is that of China’s currency. Many U.S. trade groups accuse China of keeping the yuan artificially cheap to bolster exports. The yuan was revalued in July from a direct 8.28 peg to the U.S. dollar to an approximately 8.11 managed float, but the 2.1 percent revaluation is still far below the 10 percent wanted by Washington. These issues have all strained Sino-U.S. relations...
...romance literature with its own fan website: Sheikhs and Desert Love. Eerie, a contributor to 'Aqoul, a blog mostly about news from the Middle East, noting a significant increase in the number of romance novels featuring handsome desert nomads, provided a helpful graph documenting their rise. Yin Shui Si Yuan dismissed these romance novels as "incredibly ill-informed, orientalist, romantic fantasies involving oil sheikhs." Political Animal's Kevin Drum and Abu Aardvark's Marc Lynch have found the subject an amusing distraction from the August doldrums...