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...critics. Dr. Robert Lanza of biotech firm Advanced Cell Technology considers it unethical to deliberately create a crippled human embryo "not for a scientific or medical reason, but purely to address a religious issue." The most exciting new possibility doesn't go near embryos at all. Dr. Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University reported tantalizing success in taking an adult skin cell, exposing it to four growth factors in a petri dish and transforming it into an embryo-like entity that could produce stem cells--potentially sidestepping the entire debate over means and ends...
...Toronto abounded with tales of innocence protected, propriety defiled. In the precise, grisly A Snake of June by Shinya Tsukamoto (renowned for his heavy-metal Tetsuo thrillers), a sensible career woman receives a package containing photos of her masturbating. The unknown photographer exploits her sensual sin by forcing her into ever-more provocative situations in Tokyo malls and subways. The moral: in a society where everything is recorded, only a saint could elude blackmail...
...vending machines. The public is allowed?more than that, they're encouraged?to come and watch Tanaka. Watch him do what? Work, ostensibly, at being Governor. But Tanaka spends most of his day working the crowd. "Politicians usually stay so far away from us," says 19-year-old Shinya Urayama, a college student from Tokyo on a snowboarding holiday who also wanted to view Nagano's second most famous tourist draw. "But, somehow, I don't know how, we feel very close to Tanaka...
...large corporations that finance the teams. Furuya, who had worked since 1955 for the Hanshin Electric Railway Co., the Tigers' owner, oversaw operations at Koshien Stadium before being appointed managing director. Furuya was "too earnest, sincere and had too strong a sense of responsibility," observed noted Sports Commentator Shinya Sasaki. "His title was managing director, but he was just another middle-class manager forced to shoulder heavy responsibility without being given authority to make a decision...
Often and ably does Japanese Minister of Railways Shinya Uchida cudgel the brains in his bald head for a new publicity dodge to draw the attention of tourists to Japan. Last week foreign editors were printing new pictures of the Japanese Minister of Railways. Reason: Mr. Uchida had had himself snapped putting a jujitsu headlock on blonde Mrs. Sarah Mayer, wife of a British Army officer in Japan...