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...game of strategy that serves as a social icebreaker and offers insights into Japanese culture. Invented 4,000 years ago in China, Go has won new prominence through a scene in the movie A Beautiful Mind. The main character, a brilliant mathematician played by Russell Crowe, tries to conquer Go--and loses. Played with black and white stones, Go looks like a giant game of checkers, but its aficionados say it is more complicated than chess. Although players try to capture opponents' stones, the larger aim is to gain as much territory as possible. Victory requires planning and patience, which...
Your article "Vaccines Stage A Comeback" [STAYING HEALTHY, Jan. 21] summed it up perfectly: "Vaccines are the great prevention success story of modern medicine." Rather than a fading technology, vaccines are a present wonder and, with new biotechnology developments, will help conquer a wider range of infectious diseases. A recent renewal of interest in the benefits of vaccines is a hopeful sign that researchers who are continuing to investigate the potential of new vaccines will receive public support and the investment needed to fuel their work and inspire even greater developments. DON L. DOUGLAS, PRESIDENT SABIN VACCINE INSTITUTE Washington...
...we’re mad, but we’re not allowed to say it.” On the other hand, the Harvard Corporation is presented as a villainous, face-less governing board that allows the teeming masses to live in sweatshop-like conditions as the corporation successfully conquer the global market. Elaine Bernard of the Harvard Trade Union Program comments that “human values and values of democracy and equity should supercede markets.” But, clearly, her values are far removed from those who have a say in the affairs of the university...
Meanwhile, Wal-Mart is looking for other markets to conquer. It would like to offer low-cost checking and savings accounts and other financial services in branches, managed by a division of Canada's Toronto Dominion Bank but staffed at least partly by Wal-Mart employees. Wal-Mart figures that perhaps 20% of its customers do not have bank accounts. It is trying to work its way around U.S. banking regulations that currently forbid entities such as retailers from running banks. That's where partner TD comes in. Who knows? Maybe K Mart will apply for a loan...
...beautiful, distressed but loyal wife. Finally, after he has been reduced to a near vegetative state by shock therapy and medication, there is authentic inspiration in Nash's decision to fight his way back to a semblance of sanity by using the power of his remaining sanity to conquer his craziness. The result is mainstream moviemaking at its highest, most satisfying level...