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...impoverished town about 200 miles (320 km) from Beijing, and as a young man was smart enough to get into Beida, as the Chinese call Peking University. Like so many students of that era - just after the government's assault on demonstrators in Tiananmen Square - he wanted to go to graduate school in the U.S. "Back then," he has said, "China was a depressing place." Li applied to 20 universities with computer-science programs. Only one, the State University of New York at Buffalo, offered him a scholarship. "So I packed up my winter coat," he joked in an interview...
...stars. It's not a sequel. It isn't the screen version of a best-selling novel, a comic-book franchise or the Bible. It's got a lot of battle scenes, so women certainly wouldn't want to go see it. It's also the most tree-hugging movie ever, with a defiantly leftish agenda - at the climax, we're meant to cheer when American soldiers get killed. And what does the title mean, anyway...
Recall that Titanic was a colossal gamble back in '97. With a $200 million budget, it was, some said, the most expensive picture ever made. (In real dollars, that dubious honor would probably go to the Elizabeth Taylor Cleopatra in 1963.) Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet were not yet established stars. The historical event lacked suspense: whatever else happened, that 1912 ocean liner would sink; there would be no Titanic II. Moreover, the scenario Cameron did invent was a love story, and that would scare off the guys. (See more about Avatar on Techland.com...
...medical community is watching such Patient 2.0 endeavors with a mix of admiration and trepidation. Clinical trials take a long time because they're rigorously controlled, with close attention paid to sampling bias and methodology. "Traditional, long-standing, peer-reviewed ways of testing new treatments and interventions is not going to go out the window," says Dr. Sharon Murphy, a pediatric oncologist who organized the IOM conference. "There is a strong scientific underpinning that is lacking in this Web 2.0 stuff." (Read "Does Tele-Therapy Work...
...markets to breakthroughs in science and health. Michael Elliott, TIME's international editor, has been steering the content and ideas for the forum from our end. As he says, "We've given the conference the title the New Global Opportunity because there's a realization that we can't go back to the old ways. Growth has to be inclusive and sustainable. And the role and potential of those who have been marginalized in the past--the poor, especially women and girls--will only grow...