Word: discoverer
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Last year the CSIRO structural biologist took a batch of crystals, the product of months of painstaking work, to a synchrotron in Japan, only to discover they'd been destroyed in transit. But such disappointments, as well as the increasing difficulty of taking biological samples across security-conscious international borders...
For banks and check cashers, the serious competition will come over the next year as Wal-Mart rolls out more than 1,000 dedicated check-cashing outlets in its stores, charging a flat fee of just $3 per check. Check cashers have already responded by sprucing up their offerings. Pay...
HSCI Scientific Director David T. Scadden said that while the research was unable to discover Hwang’s methods from his falsified paper, the fact that parthenogenesis is possible in humans is still a major breakthrough.
His themes and his audience have also kept him young. Ian Buruma writes that Murakami's fiction expresses "a general breaking away from family dependence, and the often lonely, fragmentary attempts by young people to choose their own way of living." You can tell that Murakami is quietly pleased by...
Meanwhile the U.S. can only watch and worry as one of its most important regional allies endures political uncertainty. U.S. Ambassador Thomas Schieffer told reporters last week that he had never met Ozawa, the man who could well be Japan's next Prime Minister. The two finally met Wednesday, only...