Word: koreans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Psst! Want to expand overseas--cheap? Well, Mr. or Ms. American Executive, have we got a deal for you! How about a plant to make vans in Thailand? Or perhaps a piece of a debt-burdened South Korean electronics firm? Or some Japanese real estate, seized by banks as collateral on defaulted loans? Hurry, hurry! These deals may not last...
Nearly two years after the cloning of Dolly had everyone asking if there would ever be another ewe, South Korean researchers are claiming that the answer is yes. Using a technique already performed in Hawaii on mice, two Korean scientists have conducted what may be the first cloning of a human embryo. They implanted genetic material from a 30-year-old woman into an egg cell, and then let that cell divide twice before stopping the experiment to steer clear of a Korean ban on experimentation with more fully developed embryos. "What this represents is a refinement of the Hawaii...
...element of the production was representative of "the message." Twilight is produced in the round, and over each of the four sets of bleachers is suspended a drop representing one of the four ethnicities that clashed in the riots. The audience is divided by these pendants into neighborhoods; Black, Korean, Latino, White, "drawing the audience into the conflict," according to Chang. Though each drop is well conceived in its own right, the aesthetics clash fiercely against one another. One in pastels looks like Monet in Watts; another (depicting the poor black neighborhoods) could be mistaken for an Ade Bethune woodprint...
...dictums; a do-gooder bent on creating communication between the communites; and a man who would enter other communities as invader. Some of the most poignant stories were the least political--the magical account of a Latino woman who survives being hit by a stray bullet, a narrative in Korean (translated by another actor) about the looting of her shop. The actors faced a tough task in making their acting as realistic as the language provided by the script, and they often succeeded--overcoming the difficulty of accents and the absence of the interviewer to whom they were speaking...
...currently working with the association in conjunction with the Korea Institute and the graduate Korean group to bring a well-known traditional dancer, Kim Young Shi, from Korea in February...