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...competition, sponsored by the journal Science in conjunction with the National Science Foundation, presented the award to Sung Hoon Kang, Boaz Pokroy, and Joanna Aizenberg from the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences...

Author: By Helen X. Yang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Scientific Image Wins Photo Prize | 2/26/2010 | See Source »

Start with clean government. All city contracts are now put out to bid online, and all bids are posted. That transparency, Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon tells TIME, has reduced corruption in the city significantly in the past 10 years. "Since all information is disclosed real time over the Internet, influence-peddling over the bargaining of government permits becomes impossible," he says. "The online system tracks the flow of approval routes and leaves behind evidence in real time. If a manager holds on to an application for too long, he becomes a suspect. So administration becomes faster and uncorrupt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seoul: World's Most Wired Megacity Gets More So | 8/24/2009 | See Source »

...nice idea, but the plan may end up reasserting South Korean women's secondary status more than boosting it. Led by Mayor Oh Se Hoon, the $104 million program launched in 2007 under the slogan "Happy Women, Happy Seoul," with a focus on mothers of young children and the unemployed. Assistant mayor of women and family policy affairs Cho Eun Hee says the program will be, among other things, helping to find work for jobless women, paving streets to make them high-heel friendly, building more women's public restrooms, improving lighting in public spaces, creating safe parks for women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will High-Heel-Friendly Streets Keep Seoul's Women Happy? | 8/5/2009 | See Source »

...roads lead to the King William IV pub - a late 15th century tavern known for its cask ale and the ceaseless chatter of good-humored barflies. On Thursday afternoon, however, the lager and the laughter stopped flowing. Forty villagers watched the television mounted in the bar silently as Geoff Hoon, the nation's Transport Secretary, announced that he had approved plans for a third runway at London's Heathrow Airport. For Sipson, which sits on the airport's northern perimeter, it's nothing short of annihilation: the village's 700 homes and businesses must now be razed to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heathrow's Expansion: A New Kind of Blitz in England | 1/17/2009 | See Source »

...Hoon said in an e-mail yesterday that he would not comment due to the ongoing legal proceedings...

Author: By Michal Labik, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Student Arrested After Altercation | 9/18/2008 | See Source »

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