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...Vowz presents an opportunity for Tokyo's youth to "wind down and enjoy a drink in religious surroundings," explains Fujioka, who is a member of the Jodo Shin sect. Like Ueno, he studied for four years to qualify for the monkhood, but now seems to have found his mission amid Vowz's barstools and cocktail shakers. There's plenty in the venue to remind him of a monastery, from a miniature butsudan shrine in the corner to Nepalese mandalas on the ceiling, the ever-present haze of incense and a powerful Bose woofer system playing the synthesizer-backed chants...
...times, the boys and girls—from seven different schools and dressed in full uniform from their shin guards to their jerseys—seemed to overwhelm the soccer players who had awaken early yesterday for morning practice. The kids ran all over the fields and sidelines playing and rooting for their teams as the Harvard players refereed...
...spiritual leader, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, in March, drawing worldwide condemnation and even U.S. disapproval. "We are all waiting for the last day of our life," Rantisi said then. "If it is by an Apache [helicopter] or by cardiac arrest, I prefer that it will be by Apache." Indeed, Shin Bet, the Israeli intelligence service, had long tracked Rantisi--he survived a rocket attack last year--and Saturday night, when he drove on a Gaza street without the usual buffering entourage of civilians, the Israelis seized the opportunity...
Making scientific history is hard enough. It's tougher still when a lot of people wish you hadn't. That was the problem facing Woo Suk Hwang and Dr. Shin Yong Moon of Seoul National University when they announced in February that they had cloned human embryos for the first time. With that development, a medical and ethical door that had remained mostly closed was kicked wide open...
This weekend, the partying got a little too wild for frosh swimmer Benjy T. Seeger ’07. After an incident with a beer bottle, Seeger refused to treat his bloodied hand, instead using it to punch teammate and fellow reveler John J. Shin ’05 in the face. Seeger then proceeded to apply the same gentle treatment to the staff at UHS. After a doctor there refused to treat that “@#$%^ing Harvard punk,” Seeger’s flailing arms struck out against the scrub-clad residents, who escorted...