Word: jump-start
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...good-bug strategy was championed by doctors treating allergies and infectious diseases. The idea was to expose patients to small quantities of partly disabled microbes to jump-start their immune system. But cancer researchers have taken the approach one step further, turning microbes into tiny Trojan horses that can sneak into tumor cells and destroy them from within. "There is a good probability that microbe approaches will be part of the arsenal of the future," says Kenneth Kinzler, a cancer researcher at Johns Hopkins Hospital's Kimmel Cancer Center who is working with the clostridium bacterium. "We're betting...
...does well. In 1997, while working for a multinational mining-finance group, he was among the first investors in Sina.com which became one of the world's largest Internet portals. His prescience won the attention of Beijing economic planners eager to set up a local VC firm to jump-start the country's technology sector, and in 1999--with $5 million in state investment and a board of directors made up of senior government ministers--NewMargin entered the market as an odd hybrid of old-school state planning and free-market hustle. It now counts telecom giants like Motorola...
...extremely painful disorders. Moreover, as many as 20% of kids who undergo surgery each year develop chronic pain that lasts long after the body has healed. According to Dr. Lonnie Zeltzer, founder and director of the Pediatric Pain Program at UCLA's Mattel Children's Hospital, an operation can jump-start a child's immature nervous system, stimulating pain-sensing neurons that will keep firing indefinitely...
...preparing for battle. ZipRealty and HouseValues, another online firm, each raised tens of millions of dollars late last year selling initial shares of stock to the public--in part to fund a marketing blitz. LendingTree was sold to Barry Diller's IAC/InterActiveCorp in 2003, giving it deep pockets to jump-start its real estate ambitions. In just a year, LendingTree has gone from zero listings to more than a million. Foxtons, which is owned by London's biggest real estate firm, will relaunch its U.S. business this month with a marketing push of its own, playing up Web benefits...
...DIED. PAMULAVARTI VENKAT NARASIMHA RAO, 83, former Prime Minister of India whose bold reforms in the 1990s helped jump-start the country's economy; in New Delhi. Following the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi in 1991, Rao abandoned a planned retirement to lead the government, and over the next five years guided the nation through a grave economic crisis and a bitter battle between Hindus and Muslims over a mosque in central India. Rao ultimately fell victim to political infighting and accusations of corruption by members of the opposition, for which he was recently acquitted. After the Congress Party lost...