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...Peter S. Ashton, the Harvard ecologist who won the prestigious Japan Prize for his research on tropical ecology, teamwork has always been crucial—to his professional success and, in one instance, to his survival. Ashton, the Bullard research professor of forestry, emeritus, was among three winners who received the annual award from the Science and Technology Foundation of Japan (JSTF) last month. The prize honors “outstanding achievements in science and technology [that] are recognized as having advanced the frontiers of knowledge and served the cause of peace and prosperity for mankind,” according...
...this unfortunate little girl represents to them. What really disturbed me is the acquiescence shown by those "doctors" who consented to commit what in my eyes is a horrific and heinous crime - of course, not before enlisting an "ethics" specialist who gave them the go-ahead. Arturo Camillacci Osaka, Japan...
...South China Morning Post had reported the previous day that the 35-year-old was living large in the Chinese territory an hour's ferry ride from Hong Kong. Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun had even run a picture of Kim's distinctively pudgy progeny standing on a Macau street sporting sunglasses, a man-purse and a smile on his face. As the Dear Leader's eldest son, Jong Nam was once considered his father's likely successor. But after the 2001 Disney debacle, when he was stopped at Narita Airport with a forged Dominican Republic passport and then deported...
...corridors. The object of the press pack's Friday night stakeout is not the Prime Minister of Portugal, here on a two-day visit to his country's former colony. Instead, we're hoping to catch a glimpse of a man known for getting busted trying to sneak into Japan to visit Tokyo Disney, and for his ability to drink 10 boilermakers in a sitting. That would be Kim Jong Nam, eldest son of North Korean dictator Kim Jong...
...again. That Friday evening, Japan's TBS television broadcast footage of a man believed to be Kim Jong Nam walking to a cab. He was wearing a powder blue sport coat and pink shirt, and drinking a green beverage from a bottle. "Are you staying at the Mandarin hotel?" the reporter asked. "I cannot tell you," the man replied. "My privacy...