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...South Korean scientist, cloning pioneer and Snuppy creator, Woo Suk Hwang, things keep going from bad to worse. Last month, he had to admit that as part of the groundbreaking stem cell research he published in 2004, one of his colleagues had paid some women for their egg donations, and that two of the unpaid donors were Hwang?s own junior researchers. Amid the ethics controversy that ensued, Hwang was hospitalized for extreme fatigue and exhaustion. He was released earlier this week, only to find one of his former researchers on a national newscast claiming that the history-making stem...
...something to reel me back in. I questioned if I could really take on the slew of responsibilities granted to each news exec, and if I could do it my way. Competition mingled with curiosity to keep my interest and enthusiasm alive. I didn’t want to admit it, but I was hooked...
...admit, I was shocked when Stephen first suggested it,” said Jannie S. Tsuei ’06, current co-chair of FM. “I told him: ‘I really, really like this idea, but I’m not sure if you are really the best dancer, or if this is something you really want to do.’ I said, ‘we’ll support you, but I’m not sure if this is a good idea...
...addition, randomization has significantly changed our House system in recent years. But even in his 1958 description of the Houses, Segal refers to them as, “what makes Harvard—and, I have to admit, Yale—different from every other university in America.” Today, the essential idea behind the Houses has survived: they are designed to help students build relationships with House tutors and masters, foster social interactions, and develop an attachment to a place we can call “home” for three years. In this particular sense, Harvard...
...achievement, and one in which Lee and his colleagues take justifiable pride. It is, moreover, something that has been much admired, to the point of imitation, around the region. Asian leaders like Malaysia's Mahathir Mohamad, Thailand's Thaksin Shinawatra and Indonesia's Suharto may rarely have chosen to admit it, but their "economy first" strategy owes much to the intelligence of a Cambridge-educated lawyer who - he admits - was himself "distraught" when his island state found itself independent and alone. Above all, with their horror of chaos, luan, China's leaders have for three decades come to Singapore...