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Researchers, hoping to avoid controversy, are looking for alternatives to fetal tissues. In the case of Parkinson's disease, says Freed, it may be possible to transplant dopamine-secreting cells taken from the patient's own adrenal gland. Other approaches were discussed at a conference on fetal cell...
The Japanese approach to other nations has grown far more sophisticated recently. Japanese businessmen have led the way. They have traveled the world and studied its languages. They have worked its trade routes with single-minded energy and curiosity, selling their wares, studying everything, plundering the remotest cultures and factories...
It is a common fantasy of Westerners that there was once an Old Japan (samurais, geishas, moon watching from the tatami) that was destroyed after 1945 by the trauma of Westernization, so that the New Japan ceased in some basic way to be Japanese. Nothing could be further from the...
The Japanese thus embraced the Bauhaus. Before the war, that small school in Germany had seemed distant and unimportant to most Japanese architects; now it, and the homogeneous systems of environmental design it stood for, became an obsession with younger architects at Tokyo University. In 1954 Walter Gropius came to...
The rare juxtaposition of the Eastern European and Latin American leaders presented a prevailing theme. Both men are actively involved in popular freedom struggles, and although the nature and status of their causes are significantly different--as are the cultures that produced them--they do concur on some basic universal...