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...most serious known health threat facing the world is avian flu." LEE JONG WOOK, World Health Organization director-general, on the H5N1 virus that killed at least 36 people in Asia...
...apologize in November for ethical lapses in his work. It was revealed that many of the eggs used to produce human stem cells in his first breakthrough work at the start of 2004 had come from two of his own researchers or from donors who had been paid-both serious breaches of medical ethics. But it seems that Hwang still has one last chance to vindicate himself: by proving that his frozen stem-cell colonies are authentic and that his pioneering cloning techniques actually work...
...Japan's?profile abroad. Thanks in large part to the efforts of the government he leads, the economy is on a more solid footing than it has been in years, and the nation is riding a long-overdue wave of optimism. Overseas, Koizumi has led the most serious postwar movement yet to transform Japan from a vassal state of the U.S. into a leading player in global politics, one that might one day have a fully functioning military, a revised constitution that renounces pacifism, and a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council. In 2005, he cemented his position...
...Once the brand name of serious cinema, later ignored, left for dead, Bergman roared back at age 85 with his first film made for theatrical release in 20 years. A sequel of sorts to his Scenes from a Marriage in 1972, Saraband reunites the main couple, Johan (Erland Josephson) and Marianne (Liv Ullmann), for an icy tri-generational trauma that involves Johan?s widowed son Henrik (B?rje Ahlstedt) and Henrik?s teenage daughter Karin (Julia Dufvenius). The movie asks: How dependent is Henrik on the daughter he loves, perhaps to excess? How dependent is Johan on the son he hates...
...said.Director of the Harvard University Library Sid Verba ’53 said that, to his knowledge, the University has received no such requests for information. But Verba expressed concern about the powers granted to the FBI under the Patriot Act. “There is really a very serious principle here having to do with people’s rights to read whatever they want to read without anyone else knowing what they’re reading,” Verba said.In response to the act, Verba said, “We now try to purge our records...