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...mistake than the accepting of the eggs? It was not a cover-up. At that time, the donors pleaded in [the] sincerest way that I must not disclose their role for the sake of their privacy. It was very agonizing for me. After serious consideration, I finally chose to protect my researchers' privacy. This, perhaps, was a cultural consideration: in Korea, disclosure of oocyte [egg] donation is a serious matter that could have an important impact on a woman's life...
...believe the controversy over your lab's procedures could have a lasting, negative effect for the international reputation of South Korean science? The fact that I had chosen to protect my researchers does not excuse me from having withheld the information. However, please know that it never was my deliberate intention. What is clear now is that research like this requires transcending all cultural considerations...
...their families and even surrounding communities. Neilsen says executives at firms that depend on raw materials coming from those mines need to be worried as well. "Even if you remove any moral consideration and look at it in pure business terms," he says, "spending a tiny sum to protect your supply chain will be good for your investors." Roughly 150 firms have joined GBC in the past 2 1/2 years to better coordinate the business response...
...patron of families. The apocryphal scene of his death surrounded by Mary and Jesus was translated into his patronage of good deaths. ("When I was a little Catholic girl," recalls Anne Rice, "we used to pray to Joseph for a happy death.") Eventually he was assumed to protect the Universal Church from heaven as he had the Family on earth. In 1955 Pope Pius XII traded on Joseph's identification as a working man, decreeing a second feast day for him on May 1 to compete with communist May Day galas. In 1962 Pope John XXIII inserted Joseph's name...
Nowhere is the team concept more ingrained or successful than at American Funds, whose managers avoid the spotlight like a stock headed for bankruptcy. The company's guiding theme: many heads with varying strategies, each doing his best with his slice of the fund, produce more good ideas and protect the fund from fads. "We've been doing it this way since 1958," says Drew Taylor, vice president of client services...