The recent glimpses of a snarling China should scare the country’s government as much as the world CHINA is in a frightening mood. The sight of thousands of Chinese people waving xenophobic fists suggests that a country on its way to becoming a superpower may turn out to be a more dangerous force...

How one man’s dream succeeded in rebuilding a global industry When Lakshmi Mittal launched his 2006 bid for Arcelor, Europe’s biggest steel company, spanning Luxembourg, France, Belgium and Spain, he was a mystery to continentals. The Indian expatriate was already known as the richest man...

MICHAEL O. HENGARTNER Cytochrome c leads a double life. When a cell is called on to commit apoptotic suicide, cytochrome c relocalizes from the mitochondria to the cytosol. There, it helps to activate the foot-soldiers of apoptosis — the death proteases known as caspases1. How cytochrome c escapes...