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  • Olympics-China plans skiing, skating drive for 2022 Winter Games

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    China wants to get 300 million citizens involved in winter sports by the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and plans to encourage them by building more than 500 ice skating rinks and 240 ski slopes over the next six years, the government said. The country’s top economic planner said on Friday that the number and scale…

  • Connected liner keeps pressure sores at bay

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    French start-up Gaspard has developed a connected intelligent liner pad, which uses a system of sensors to help prevent pressure sores for wheelchair users, people of reduced mobility or patients hospitalized for long periods of time. Morgan Lavaux, the 29-year-old entrepreneur who developed this innovative product, was himself the victim of an accident that left…

  • J&J makes takeover approach for Swiss drugmaker Actelion: Bloomberg

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    (Reuters) – U.S. healthcare company Johnson & Johnson has approached Swiss biotechnology firm Actelion Ltd about a potential takeover, Bloomberg reported on Thursday, citing people it said were familiar with the matter. The report said deliberations were still at an early stage following Johnson & Johnson's (J&J) initial offer, and Actelion was working with an…

  • Knife-wielding attacker wounds seven children in China

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    A knife-wielding man on Friday wounded seven children and two bystanders outside a primary school in northwestern China, state media said, in the latest mass knifing attack. Violent crime is rare in China compared with many other countries, but there has been a series of knife and ax attacks in recent years, many targeting children.…