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...three-day summit, hosted by TIME, to sip chardonnay and mull over the future of life. As one might expect from such a powerhouse crowd pondering so cosmic a theme, there were fireworks from the outset as participants debated stem cell research, discussed the upswing in anti-evolutionary fervor, examined the promise of nanotechnology in medicine and considered whether anyone would ever really make a big payday from the genomics revolution. Still, the academic spats did nothing to dampen the general optimism that science would improve the human condition by eradicating disease, extending life span and offering a healthy economic...
...Brahm, a New York native, arrived in Beijing in 1981 as a student, clutching a well-worn copy of Mao's Little Red Book and seeking the revolutionary fervor he first encountered in Edgar R. Snow's Red Star Over China. He was too late, of course: Deng Xiaoping had already started his radical transformation of the country. Undaunted, Brahm folded his romantic visions of a communist utopia between the pages of his Little Red Book, left it on the shelf and plunged headlong into a rapidly modernizing China. He apprenticed himself to a British law firm and from there...
...around to see if others were feeling the same home-style longings, and discovered an eager market for Mexican (and responded with Taco Loco in June last year). But they also found an even bigger craving lurking in Hong Kong expat stomachs: deli food. "We found this craziness, this fervor for deli," says Levin...
Parent criticism reached high fervor last night. As Turkel offered her 11th-hour plan, Harrington parent Karen M. Thomas began shouting vehemently and stormed out of the room...
...moment, however, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the U.S. is not where you want to be if you are running for office in South Korea. The country is currently embroiled in one of its periodic bouts of anti-American fervor, inflamed by the acquittal last month of two U.S. soldiers on trial for negligent homicide for running over two young Korean girls with an armored vehicle. U.S. officials have tried to ease tensions with numerous expressions of regret, including an apology by Bush himself last Wednesday. But the demonstrations show no signs of abating. On Nov. 26, at least...