Word: koreans
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...Korean Association, the Israeli Dance Troupe, the Caribbean Club and the Brazilian Organization performed in the Science Center following the Sanders Theatre portion of the show...
Rubin has had his star turns as well. In late 1997 he probably single-handedly stopped a panic about Korean debt from avalanching into a U.S. market crash by working the phones, convincing international bankers that they should cut Korea a break. It was not a welcome pitch. "This is a hell of a Christmas present," one banker moaned to Rubin on Christmas Eve. But Rubin's scheme saved the banks billions because if Korea had crashed, the banks could have lost everything. "It was Bob who actually got the banks to see how it worked to their benefit," Greenspan...
...announcement in February 1997 of the birth of a sheep named Dolly, an exact genetic replica of its mother, sparked a worldwide debate over the moral and medical implications of cloning. Several U.S. states and European countries have banned the cloning of human beings, yet South Korean scientists claimed last month that they had already taken the first step. In the following essay for TIME, embryologist Wilmut, who led the team that brought Dolly to life at Scotland's Roslin Institute, explains why he believes the debate over cloning people has largely missed the point...
Seed is unconvinced. "The [Korean] results are highly suspect," he says. But he recognizes that the world is not waiting for him. "I'll be devastated if someone else does it first," he says. "But I'll get over it. I'd rather see somebody do it than nobody." That way, at least, Seed could pursue his next project--reprogramming DNA to achieve immortality--which he sees as the all-important successor to cloning. So here's a conundrum: Which would be stranger, a world full of Richard Seeds, or a world in which Seed never goes away...
...embryo after only two cell divisions (well before the critical 16-cell stage), because they hadn't videotaped their work and, most of all, because they hadn't published it in a peer-reviewed journal, the rest of the scientific community didn't feel obliged to take the Korean claims seriously. Even RICHARD SEED, the unemployed Chicago physicist who has taken it on himself to give cloning a bad name, was taking potshots. "I am supportive of the work," he told TIME, "but you can't trust...