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HUDS moved to acquire the additional “Veritas” irons in reaction to enthusiastic feedback from students in Dunster and Mather. In addition, HUDS has heard pleas from students in Houses without the new waffle irons...
DIED. GEORGE BEST, 59, dazzling international soccer superstar whose good looks and shaggy coif earned him the nickname the "fifth Beatle"; of a lung infection, after being hospitalized for a prescription-drug reaction; in London. Long before David Beckham, Best injected sex appeal into soccer, leading Manchester United to its first European Cup win in 1968. But he earned his reputation as a trouble-seeking playboy. Unable to stop drinking, even after a 2002 liver transplant, he called alcohol the "only opponent I've been unable to beat...
...other words, while China was experiencing one of its worst industrial accidents in years, the official reaction was to keep the truth under wraps?while millions faced exposure to toxic chemicals. "There is an information-disclosure gap in China," says Jennifer Turner, coordinator of the China Environment Forum at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. "A public right to information isn't there...
...turn"?the city calmed and the emergency response was efficient. Government engineers dug up to 100 wells around Harbin and plenty of bottled water was shipped in. Chinese newspapers jumped on the story and openly accused the government of a cover-up. "The panic and chain reaction caused by the failure to make information public," reported the Shanghai-based Oriental Morning Post, "will do great harm to the government's credibility...
...have to be squeaky clean ethically," says Dr. Richard Boyd, a stem-cell scientist at Australia's Monash University. Despite the scandal, Hwang, who says he'll continue his research, remains a hero at home?last week more than 600 Korean women signed up to donate their eggs. That reaction worries Ku In Hoe, a bioethicist at Catholic University in Seoul. "Korea's representative scientist just turned out to be a liar," she says. "We should not try to cover this...