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...Last week, Hwang was in Seattle describing his team's breakthrough in cloning human cells for therapeutic purposes, which could lead to the creation of replacement organs and tissues for injured or diseased patients. That could take years, or may never happen at all, because of the controversy surrounding human cloning. Laws passed in Korea last year make cloning for the purpose of making a baby illegal, and legislation coming into effect next year will probably restrict therapeutic cloning to a few institutions granted government licenses and approved by an ethics board...
...black leather and deluxe European decadence. The son of prosperous Jewish parents, Newton fled from Hitler's Germany to Singapore, where he took up the camera, then to Australia, where he was discovered by Vogue. In London and New York, he developed the louche, provocative style of his breakthrough 1976 book, White Women. By bringing raw sex to glamour and anger to Eros, he displayed one of the defining sensibilities of the '70s and beyond. Feminists--and not just feminists--complained that his images degraded women. He insisted that women were always in the saddle, even when his women, cool...
...black leather and deluxe European decadence. The son of prosperous Jewish parents, Newton fled from Hitler's Germany to Singapore, where he took up the camera, then to Australia, where he was discovered by Vogue. In London and New York, he developed the louche, provocative style of his breakthrough 1976 book, White Women. By bringing raw sex to glamour and anger to Eros, he displayed one of the defining sensibilities of the '70s and beyond. Feminists?and not just feminists?complained that his images degraded women. He insisted that women were always in the saddle, even when his women, cool...
...DIED. RAY STARK, 88, prolific Hollywood producer who gave Barbra Streisand her breakthrough role in the stage musical and 1968 film Funny Girl; in Los Angeles. Stark, who started out in Hollywood writing captions for publicity photos at Warner Bros., made more than 125 films, including Night of the Iguana, The Way We Were, and 11 movies in close collaboration with playwright Neil Simon, among them The Sunshine Boys. Stark considered several actresses such as Mary Martin and Eydie Gorme before choosing the then unknown Streisand to play Funny Girl's Fanny Brice. Her performance in the film...
...early January breakthrough in the negotiations led to some optimism. At peace talks in Naivasha, Kenya, the two sides agreed to split the south's resources equally for six years, before the southerners vote on whether to secede. But the peace is fragile. Still on the agenda are the delicate issues of a power-sharing agreement and the fate of three northern regions that fought with the rebels. Two weeks ago Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir ruled out any deal over disputed regions. His soldiers continue to wage war against other rebels in the west, where fighting has killed...