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Business Jan 5, 2019

Brazil's 'Chicago Oldies' team aims to revive Pinochet-era economic playbook

Brazil's new Economy Minister Paulo Guedes worked in Chile 40 years ago after earning his doctorate at the University of Chicago, giving him a front-row seat to dictator Augusto Pinochet's economic shock treatment. Even as Pinochet's authoritarian regime left a brutal human rights legacy — ...

People | WHY DID YOU LEAVE JAPAN? Jul 8, 2017

Leading cancer researcher Yusuke Nakamura pursues answers

by Daniel Morales

Yusuke Nakamura could easily have had a long, successful career as a surgeon in Japan, but he isn't the kind of person who is satisfied with unanswered questions.

National Oct 23, 2014

Drug in Japan found to eradicate human lung cancer in mice

In a rare and promising finding, a drug under development in Japan is found to eradicate human lung cancer tumors in mice.