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...Then, shortly before midnight, someone burst into the Sago Baptist church and announced that there were 12 survivors. Hundreds of people surged out the door. Church bells rang. For a brief spell, it appeared, there would be a repeat of the stunning 2002 rescue of nine Pennsylvania miners, who had survived more than three days underground after their mine had flooded...
When Woo Suk Hwang burst into international prominence back in 2004, seemingly out of nowhere, his story seemed too good to be true. Here was a poor Korean farm boy who had overcome his humble origins to become a leading veterinary scientist, and then gone on to achieve a scientific landmark: the first therapeutic cloning of a human embryo. That transformed him into a biomedical superstar and made his native South Korea--a country better known for its serial television dramas than its scientific accomplishments--into the undisputed leader of a technology that could revolutionize modern medicine...
Bono, meanwhile, launched a final burst of back-room politicking, greasing countless surreal encounters with people who had no business being in the same room together. Days before the summit, he visited 10 Downing Street and learned that the G-8's civil-servant negotiators, or "sherpas," who put deals into precise language, were feuding over how to pay for the proposed $50 billion aid package. "We were having a beer," Blair told TIME, "and just decided we would talk to these people who'd done an incredible amount of work, to give them a sense of the importance...
...prevented the message from going to the entire class. “I am very sorry for this occurring and it was totally an accident,” King said. Not everyone in the section was upset about the e-mail. “When I saw that, I burst out laughing,” said Durrell B. Robinson ’08, of whom King wrote that he “contributed a great deal to the discussion.” “It was precious,” Robinson added. King wrote a second e-mail...
...last time those questions were asked, I really felt like it was an attempt for me to say it was a mistake to go into Iraq. And it wasn't a mistake to go into Iraq. It was the right decision to make." Roberts had referenced the President's burst of candor in the past week, and Bush said: "The point I'm trying to make to the American people in this, as you said, candid dialogue-I hope I've been candid all along; but in the candid dialogue-is to say, we're constantly changing our tactics...