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...Sung-Il, the doctor who had provided donated eggs to Hwang?s research, said that Hwang had asked Science, the journal that published his paper on patient-specific stem cells, to withdraw the publication. A spokesperson at the journal said that they had not yet received a retraction request, but have e-mailed all 25 co-authors asking for clarification of the fabrication allegations. Roh told news media that of the 11 stem cell lines created from patients with diseases, nine were fake. Whether the two remaining lines were valid, and photographed repeatedly to stand in for the other lines...
...finals approach, the Bureau of Study Counsel (BSC) has been actively soliciting tutors through e-mail and phone calls—so much so that some students say the number of requests they have received indicates a shortage of tutors. “There’s always a dearth of tutors,” said Sarah M. G. Otner ’06, who has tutored in psychology and statistics. John H. Jernigan ’06, another tutor, said he has had many conversations about a tutor shortage with BSC staff during weekly meetings for the Award Peer...
...HANGED. NGUYEN TUONG VAN, 25, an Australian convicted of attempting to smuggle 400 g of heroin to Melbourne; in Singapore. Nguyen picked up the heroin in Cambodia and was caught in transit at Singapore's Changi Airport. Australian officials lobbied unsuccessfully to stop his execution. Singapore rejected Nguyen's request to have a final hug with family members, but allowed his mother to hold his hand and touch his face and hair the day before he was hanged. Australian Attorney General Philip Ruddock called the execution a "barbaric...
...TIME reported two weeks ago, Novak had recently agreed to cooperate with a request from Fitzgerald to answer questions about conversations she had had with Robert Luskin, the attorney for White House senior adviser Karl Rove. Novak cooperated because, unlike her colleague Cooper, she did not have a confidential source to protect. Last Thursday, Novak was questioned under oath by Fitzgerald for more than an hour at the Washington office of her lawyer...
...months ago, when Westfall announced that he could no longer teach, his students decided to continue studying the subject on their own, rather than to request another professor. They felt that anybody else would be too much of a departure from Westfall’s style, according to Herwitz...