Mr. Wang said long-term investments, including direct investments, private equity, infrastructure and real estate, now account for more than half of the fund's global portfolio, with the rest in public-market securities.

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In a lab at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, Gene-Jack Wang is injecting overeaters with a radioactive sugar solution and putting them into a positron-emissions tomography machine to see how their brains react to food.

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Wang comes from a background unusual among architects of his stature, having served a nearly decade-long hitch working with traditional craftsmen in the construction industry.

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"In the U.S. we only have three UVA filters that can extend the range of the UVA protection to the long range, " said Steven Wang, director of Dermatologic Surgery and Dermatology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New Jersey.

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