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...owners with a copies of their deceased pets and police with new K9 units is not the only goal for many of these Korean scientists. Since canines share more disease patterns with humans than any other animal species apart from mice, animal reproduction experts like Lee and Kim Min Kyu at Chungnam National University see dogs as a great medical resource. "Dogs have similiar physiology and can communicate with humans,' explains Lee. He is currently working on producing a "transgenic" dog - or a dog whose DNA is manipulated to either delete or introduce new genes - to enable scientists to better...
...execution earlier this week of one hostage, pastor Bae Hyung Kyu, 42, brought the expected outpouring of grief and condolences. But non-evangelical Koreans are still scratching their heads over why the Saemmul church group trotted off to such a volatile region, thumbing its nose at government warnings not to enter Afghanistan...
...DIED. Choi Kyu Hah, 87, former Prime Minister of South Korea who served briefly as the country's 10th President following the 1979 assassination of Park Chung Hee; in Seoul. After replacing the dictatorial Park, Choi, a former professor and long-serving bureaucrat, released opposition leaders from prison and promised elections and a new constitution. But his moderate reforms were cut short after a cabal of generals seized power later that year, leaving Choi President in name only. He resigned in 1980 in the wake of the Kwangju massacre, in which over 200 pro-democracy activists were killed...
Delisle gets assigned an official guide, Mr. Kyu, which all non- diplomatic foreigners must have, and a translator, Mr. Sin. These two become the only North Koreans that Delisle is allowed any extended contact with. In spite of this they remain - and I am going to use a loaded word here - inscrutable. Of their personal life we learn nothing. Of their feelings and opinions we learn almost as little, except when Mr. Kyu unwittingly borrows 1984, which Delisle slyly describes as "science fiction." Mr. Kyu later returns the book nervously but says little about it except that he "doesn...
...surprised at 109's staying power, given the ephemeral nature of the business. "Our market is so fickle," he says. "They get tired of things very quickly." That means he is always on the lookout for the next hot designers to make sure they get their start in Maru Kyu--because when Japan's teen fashionistas "jump on something new," he says, "it can be explosive." --By Jim Frederick. With reporting by Michiko Toyama/Tokyo