Word: kwang
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Seven armed North Koreans were tracked down and killed in separate clashes the next day. One intruder, however, was captured alive. Under interrogation, Lee Kwang Soo at first refused to talk, saying his family in the North would suffer for it. Then, after downing a few drinks of soju, the local gin, he became voluble but also contradictory. According to his latest account, Lee was a member of the crew of the sub, which left North Korean waters on Sept. 14 with seven infiltrators and 19 crew. Their mission, he says, was to spy on an airport, radar installations...
...politics that had gripped the country throughout the 1980's. The two convicted men were boyhood friends who rose through the military and as generals staged a coup in 1979, placing Chun into the presidency. Six months later, Chun ordered a brutal crackdown of pro-democracy uprisings in the Kwang-ju province. The police action left some 200 dead, and Kwang-ju became a rallying cry for Korean dissidents. Roh succeeded Chun in 1988 and ruled until the current civilian president, Kim Young-sam, won power in 1992. It was Kim who began the reforms that led to the trial...
...actually the fourth human born from an egg matured outside the ovary. In 1991, Dr. Kwang Yul Cha and his colleagues at the Cha Woman's Hospital in Seoul removed the ovaries of a woman with fibroid tumors and isolated immature eggs, which were then ripened and fertilized in the lab. They transferred the embryos to a surrogate mother, who produced triplets. Since then Cha has not repeated his success...
...another van der Merwe advisee, Kwang-TzouChen, alleges that one of van der Merwe's classes,Archaeometry Lab Practicum, is simply "taughtunder his name...
...verge of a breakthrough in a procedure doctors have been dreaming about for some time: the freezing and storage of unfertilized eggs. Sperm and embryos are regularly frozen for later use, but not eggs, which quickly lose their viability when manipulated outside the body. But Dr. Kwang Yul Cha, an endocrinologist at Cha Women's Hospital in Seoul, reports that his team has produced two pregnancies from eggs matured not in an ovary but in a Petri dish -- a major step in the eventual perfection of egg freezing. Many scientists expect that the procedure will be available within the next...