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Sometimes the best marketing ideas take on a life of their own. Seeking to publicize the skin-care benefits of grooming products made with local mineral-rich mud, the South Korean city of Boryeong staged a small "mud festival" in 1998. Eight years later, the annual Boryeong Mud Festival, mudfestival.or.kr, sees a staggering 1.5 million visitors flock to the normally sleepy seaside destination for a week of gooey fun. Located 200 km (or about a two-hour bus ride) from Seoul, on the[an error occurred while processing this directive] country's west coast, Boryeong is home to the soft...
...Great food hall, tel: (852) 2918 9986, overflows with gourmet comestibles, stocking around 46,000 products from exquisite smoked salmon and marinated olives to fresh oysters. But it's the non-Western delights that are Great's real points of difference, with the store boasting very wide Japanese, Korean and kosher selections alongside the Italian, German or French fare. Choose your sashimi or sushi, get some kimchi on the side, and then head over to nearby Hong Kong Park for Asian alfresco dining. Paris Founded on the Left Bank as Paris' first department store, the Louis-Auguste Boileau and Gustave...
Harvard stem cell scientists were humbled in 2004 when South Korean scientist Hwang Woo Suk announced that he had created stem cell lines from cloned human embryos. “Without question, the South Koreans are the world leaders in this research, hands down,” said Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences Douglas A. Melton at the time.But with Hwang’s advance came new resolve.“Harvard scientists are a competitive lot,” Harvard Medical School professor George Q. Daley told The Crimson at the time. “We should...
...first reported program launched by an academic institute to use fresh eggs in somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) to create stem cells. That's the technique that South Korean scientists claimed they had used to create nearly a dozen stem cell lines from diseased patients before admitting earlier this year that their results had been fabricated. HSCI will recruit donors first from the Boston area, Dr. Kevin Eggan, one of the lead investigators, told reporters. Although egg donors to IVF clinics are paid, HSCI decided not to compensate donors for the stem cell studies, to be sure that the women...
...watershed was reached when a student organization invited Howard Fast, a prolific author and a well-known American communist, to speak at one of its periodic forums. Fast was to debate Professor Edwin O. Reischauer (who later became U.S. ambassador to Japan) on the causes of the Korean War.The popular press exploded. Both major Boston newspapers attacked Harvard for permitting a notorious member of the U.S. Communist Party to appear on campus to propagandize innocent undergraduates. A Cambridge City Councilman, Edward A. “Fast Eddie” Sullivan, proposed that Harvard Yard should be taken by eminent domain...