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Xia Liu of Atlanta, Georgia has been honored with a recognition by Business to Business in its selection of "Women Of Excellence." ATLANTA, Feb. 5, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Announcing a special recognition appearing in the December, 2012 issue of Business to Business published by Business Leader Media. Xia Liu was selected for the following honor: "Women Of Excellence" (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130205/DC54547) Xia Liu commented on the recognition:...

Scientists at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) have identified a potential new approach to preventing smoking relapse, which occurs frequently in smokers who attempt to quit, despite current treatments. "We have developed a protein peptide that may be a new type of highly targeted treatment to prevent smoking relapse," says Dr. Fang Liu, Senior Scientist in CAMH's Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute and Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the...

Water's fate in China mirrors problems across the world: fouled, pushed far from its natural origins, squandered and exploited. In this week's Science magazine, Jianguo "Jack" Liu, director of Michigan State University's Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, and doctoral student Wu Yang look at lessons learned in China and management strategies that hold solutions for China – and across the world. In their article "Water Sustainability for China and Beyond," Liu and Yang...

University of Oregon chemists, biologists team to boost boron's expanding use in medicineChemists and biologists have successfully demonstrated that specially synthesized boron compounds are readily accepted in biologically active enzymes, a move that, they say, is a proof of concept that could lead to new drug design strategies.In June 2008, University of Oregon chemist Shih-Yuan Liu reported in the Journal of the American Chemical Society his lab's synthesis of boron-nitrogen compounds with...

A 13-year-old boy stole a city bus in Beijing, smashed it into a dozen vehicles and knocked down two utility poles before the escapade ended, police say. It was like watching a blockbuster movie when I saw the bus crashing into cars like a bulldozer, a man identified only by the surname Liu told Xinhua as he described the Sunday morning excitement. The state-run news agency reported Monday the bus's driver had gotten out to use a toilet when the slender, 5-foot-5 youth got into the driver's...

A Chinese college student who wanted to hug a panda bear climbed into its pen, but instead of getting a cuddle he was mauled by the animal, officials said. The student ignored warning signs cautioning visitors to not climb over the panda cage fences at the Qixing Park Zoo in Guilin, China, hopping into a the bear's pen Friday, the state-run Chinese news agency Xinhua reported. Officials said the panda, named Yangyang, was frightened by the 20-year-old's attempts to hug it and responded by...

By David Barboza When Liu Xiang, China's star hurdler, pulled out of the Beijing Olympics on Monday morning, his foot injury sapped the hopes and aspirations of a nation - and dealt a serious blow to a few global marketers, who in recent years have spent millions of dollars helping turn him into a national icon. It was a strange twist in the career of Liu, who is by far the most celebrated athlete in China, a symbol of the nation's growing confidence and a marketer's dream. Not even Yao...

Chances of Category 4 or 5 hurricanes hitting Gulf location are .03 percent annuallyBATON ROUGE "“ Hurricanes Katrina and Rita focused the international spotlight on the vulnerability of the U.S. coastline. Fears that a "super-hurricane" could make a direct hit on a major city and cause even more staggering losses of life, land and economy triggered an outpouring of studies directed at every facet of this ferocious weather phenomenon. Now, an LSU professor takes us one step closer...

By Nick Mulvenney BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing organizers expect the volunteer program for the 2008 Olympics to be heavily oversubscribed but are still keen to involve people from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macao and further afield. A recruitment campaign, launched at a ceremony in Beijing on Monday, is aiming to enlist 100,000 volunteers -- 70,000 for the Olympics and 30,000 for the Paralympics -- and officials do not anticipate any problem in reaching their target. "We've already been really...

LAUSANNE (Reuters) - China's Liu Xiang smashed the 110 meters hurdles world record with a time of 12.88 seconds at a super grand prix meeting on Tuesday. Olympic champion Liu jointly held the previous world best of 12.91 seconds with Britain's Colin Jackson. Two-times world champion Jackson, originally set the mark in Stuttgart in August 1993. Liu equaled it on his way to Olympic gold in Athens in 2004. "I never thought I could break the world record. I'm feeling very tired, very happy...