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...creation of stem-cell lines for near-miraculous medical treatments-and because Yamanaka did not use human embryos, his technique offered researchers everywhere a way to sidestep the ethical controversies that have dogged the field since its birth. But it was March 2006, just months after the South Korean stem-cell scientist Hwang Woo Suk-who had become an international sensation after claiming to have cloned a human embryo, a first-had been exposed as a fraud. As another Asian stem-cell scientist announcing a surprise advance, Yamanaka knew his peers would put him under the microscope. "I was very...
...Sampling Asia's Diversity Every blurb in "The Best of Asia" featured an attractive locale or experience-save for both segments on South Korea [May 7]. Both articles showcased forgettable events and inaccessible places largely unknown to Koreans. Who cares to step inside a girls' high school or a U.S. Army base? Korean food is as delectable as any in the world. The all-night markets and live-music venues in Seoul are quintessential examples of the breathless Korean pace, and the mountaintop temples show the contrasting serenity of the countryside. It is greatly disappointing to read of the wonders...
...least in the exhibition's first half, is the heavy presence of art, a great deal of it photography, that's politically engaged. This is a show in good measure about a world in a state of emergency - in the Middle East, Africa, the Balkans, along the Korean Demilitarized Zone and countless borders - an emergency that is in some ways a consequence of modernity, and in other ways a consequence of our failure to be modern enough...
...listed as Asian or "other." So just as the Church went on a global hunt for priests in years past to tend to the flock in their own language, the archdiocese here is trying to recruit a U.N. corps of clergy by mining local neighborhoods filled with Korean and Chinese, Urdu, Hindi and Polish, French, German, Italian and all manner of Spanish and African dialects...
From his experiences during the war, Halberstam wrote what is considered one of his greatest works, “The Best and the Brightest.” More than 20 books followed, with his most recent, “The Coldest Winter,” a book about the Korean war, due out this upcoming fall...