First, China is generating a ton of energy jobs of all kinds--oil, coal, nuclear, renewable--precisely because their economy is in the middle phase of the electrification and transportation build-out that America experienced last century.

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While other pharmaceutical companies have paid large amounts of cash for biotech drugs that had nearly completed human testing, Roche (otc: RHHBY - news - people ) has been sticking mostly to those that are in the earliest (phase I) or middle (phase II) stages of clinical trials.

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Code-named AP23573 and now in middle-phase trials of 176 patients, it is aimed at an awfully small market:Only 12, 000 to 13, 000 new cases of sarcoma are diagnosed each year, compared with 213, 000 new cases of breast cancer.

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AstraZeneca is in the middle of a second Phase IIb trial of its AZD6765 compound, testing it in 282 people.

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Palatin Technologies, in partnership with King Pharmaceuticals, is in middle-stage trials (Phase II of a total of three) to research another nasal-sprayed chemical, PT-141, which stimulates the hypothalamus' melanocortin receptors, which are responsible for hunger and may have a more potent arousal effect.

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By the middle of last year, a surprising third phase had started.

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The company is aiming for a global market, with the first phase targeting UK and Asia, and then expanding into the Middle East and the Americas, and eventually into every country with a Muslim population.

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This work would take place in the second phase of the development with the first phase, which has already started, seeing a new conference and events suite built by the middle of next year.

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