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...cares? Room and board are free. SCOTLAND Dhanakosa Find enlightenment in the southern Scottish Highlands at this Buddhist hideaway. Retreats on offer combine meditation with everything from photography classes to Tai Chi, starting from $100 a weekend. KOREA Mu Sang Sa This Zen temple, three hours' drive from Seoul , holds twice-yearly retreats. Live the life of a monk or a nun for up to three months without any prior meditation experience, from $175 a week...
...Beijing Games: Koreans are worried that Taekwondo could get bumped out of the Olympics altogether in favor of a Chinese martial art called wushu. "The I.O.C. wants to see Taekwondo clean itself up," says Steven Capener, a former U.S. national Taekwondo team member who worked for the WTF in Seoul. Otherwise, the sport may be cruising for the Olympic equivalent of a roundhouse kick to the head...
...participating countries?China, Japan, North and South Korea, Russia and the U.S.?expressed their satisfaction with a process the chief achievement of which was to have avoided falling apart entirely. "There was no breakdown but no breakthrough," says Lee Chung Min, a North Korea expert at Yonsei University in Seoul. "It was another round of shadow boxing...
...KOREA Mu Sang Sa This Zen temple, three hours' drive from Seoul, holds twice-yearly retreats. Live the life of a monk or a nun for up to three months without any prior meditation experience, from $175 a week...
That's how a report in the journal Science sounded last week--at least at first blush. Woo Suk Hwang and Dr. Shin Yong Moon, from Korea's Seoul National University, announced that they had created more than 200 embryos by cloning mature human cells and had grown 30 of them to the blastocyst stage of development, each more than 100 cells strong. This isn't the first time cloned human embryos have been produced: in 2001 the Massachusetts biotech firm Advanced Cell Technology made several. They all died quickly, but in a sense the first cloned human cells...